rosa (they/them) is an illustrator, writer, grower, and facilitator based in Brighton. 

Their practice is rooted in their lived experience as an autistic, disabled, mixed race, human-shaped being. They believe in the importance of storytelling and imagination in sowing liberated futures. Through their work they create quiet spaces to radically listen, question, unlearn, dismantle, imagine, play, and tell stories. They are always curious, definitely introverted, and not very good at small talk. 

They have experience facilitating workshops, growing and gardening, working with marginalised communities, designing and making radical and playful materials and resources.

They are inspired by 

radical imagination as a tool for liberation, queer ecology, gardening as resistance, mycelium, crip liberation, abolition, James Baldwin, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, compost, quiet activism, transgressing disciplinary lines, multispecies collaboration, the undercommons, Afrofuturism, solarpunk and earthworms.

Some organisations they’ve collaborated with:

Radical Rhizomes (Marlborough Productions)
NEUROMANCERS CIC
Brighton and Hove Organic Gardening Group
the remote body
Abolitionist Futures (Leeds University)
Touretteshero CIC
London College of Fashion