Getting to the Root of it with Venus Roots

In this episode, Niki interviews Mars, founder of Art Hoe Collective, a globally-renowned QTPOC collective of young artists that helped catalyze the movement of online creative collectives back in 2015. Navigating the nuances of commodification of bodies of color; they discuss exploitation of trauma, the precarity of the gig economy, the invisibility of creative labor by femmes of color, and the effects of radical rhetoric becoming mainstream.

Art Hoe Collective has been featured in PAPER Magazine, Dazed, Teen Vogue, ESSENCE, i-D, Nylon.

Music courtesy of Magic City Hippies

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Show Notes

In this episode, Niki interviews Mars, founder of Art Hoe Collective, a globally-renowned QTPOC collective of young artists that helped catalyze the movement of online creative collectives back in 2015. Navigating the nuances of commodification of bodies of color; they discuss exploitation of trauma, the precarity of the gig economy, the invisibility of creative labor by femmes of color, and the effects of radical rhetoric becoming mainstream.

Art Hoe Collective has been featured in PAPER Magazine, Dazed, Teen Vogue, ESSENCE, i-D, Nylon.

Music courtesy of Magic City Hippies

venusroots.com
@venusroots 
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What is Getting to the Root of it with Venus Roots?

join niki franco (venus roots), a community organizer, writer, and facilitator of spaces for collective study, as she leans into conversations of radical truth-telling with artists, theorists, and organizers living in a world of rigid binaries and multiple truths. she navigates the urgency of solidarity, ancestral preservation, and dismantling systems of oppression that inform and deform our lives.

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