For those of you who don’t know we are kinda spoiled out here in California. Some people out here are actually shocked to realize that racism still exists. When I recount stories from my childhood they cringe and say ooooooommmmmgeeeeeeee seriously dude. They are rather dismayed to find that in certain areas of the United…
Author: Rawiyah
Rawiyah Tariq is a Black, gender non-binary, fat, disabled and neurodivergent artist and kink aware professional.
Their roots are in queer, poly-amorous, fat community.
Their tone is reflective of these roots. Their work is informed by how these intersect with their Blackness.
Magic, massage, storytelling and performance art are tools they use to liberate, heal and reclaim space for marginalized communities. they believe in cohesive and somatic healing and holding practices that align body, mind and spirit.
Currently, they are living in the Bay Area while working on their book and their healing and holding practice A Sovereign Embodiment (ASE) . Through ASE where they provide ritual creation, divination, heart holding and graphic design.
Year in Review
posting early because this weekend I will be too busy doing epic wildness, imbibing epic amounts achol. soaking up mega love rays like sunshine and in various states of undress in multiple compromising positions (because of a photoshoot you wonderful freakniks) A few days ago I wanted to crawl into a tub, slit…
Dehydrated
I’ve been eating fire for the past few months. Dre had noticed it. Everything has been all cayenne and chili pepper flakes, wasabi, ginger and garlic, noodles doused in unnaturally flaming crimson Sriracha Roster sauce, Louisiana Crystal Hot red dripping from a white and blue bottle burning down my throat. I’ve been eating fire to…
How I really feel
I can’t sleep My throat is closing up and it’s because I have been holding back things that I have really wanted to say. A part of me wants to be objective about this thing but I bigger part of me is saying fuck it. I really can’t afford to get sick again So I’m just gonna…
#@#$%*$&@&#*$*@*@$!!!!!1!!!
Yawn and stretch) now that I have had some rest….. Normally I paint a scene and give everyone a bit of background information but I feel that this incident of jackassery needs no such introduction For suggesting that I lack the ability to do my job because I am fat. Fuck you!! Fuck you!! Fuck…
Fat on Phat Violence
Disclaimers: the following post contains multiple, continuous and flagrantly shameless use of the words: fuck, bitch, and FAT If any of these words offend you or if you’re one of my former English teachers please navigate away from this page now Dear Ungrateful Fat Bitches, WTF nobody put’s baby in a corner I expected hate…
Another Day
Another day and I am so far behind… I just cant seem to catch up any more and sometimes I just want to lay in the haze that I am in… I feel so depressed so stuck … so worried. I am tired of everything at the moment. I want to cry and scream and…
Loc-n-Jane Out
It has been years… years since I’ve been in a beauty salon… let alone a black salon. The smells of hot grease and curling irons drown me in an ache, a longing for home and pink barrettes, shiny black patent leather shoes and baby blue taffeta dresses. Sade and Aretha Franklin sounds so thick that…
#MammyisDead 