What is your mission?
Creativity Without Boundaries
I guide every word I write and every project I create with a few simple questions. Who needs to read this? Who needs to feel it? Why am I crafting this? My mission is creative, communal, personal, and radically inclusive.
Whether through poetry, essays, articles, fictional storytelling, or poetic narrative. My writing exists to reach people on an emotional level. This work aims to resonate, provoke reflection, and inspire action. But it isn’t just about words. It’s about building a movement. This movement revolves around how creativity is shared, judged, and celebrated. This is a care centered creative community.
Growing and Expanding Creative Expression
I aim to expand beyond non-fiction poetry into:
Fictional poetry, narrative storytelling through poetic storylines or short stories, personal essays, reflective articles and other works of imaginative fiction.
Each fictional piece is crafted to connect in an entertaining way. It serves as a bridge to my other more emotional and non-fictional creations.
This expansion aligns with the growing importance growth as a creative individual and brand
Building a Creative Community for All
I am committed to redefining community in the arts.
Safety and care:
Crafting creative spaces where voices are protected, valued, and nurtured.
Growth and advocacy:
Through mentorship, resources, and collaboration that prioritize minority voices.
Artistic freedom:
Things like no paywalls, no educational barriers, no judgment based on perspective, identity, or credentials for minority creative people.
Doing this we:
Are actively dismantling the traditional publishing model that favors privilege and exclusivity. Every artist, poet, and writer, regardless of degree, background, or experience, can be published, shared, and spotlighted here.
Community Collaboration
Through free-to-read digital quarterlies, we spotlight minority creatives and welcoming allies. Contributors gain visibility without financial barriers. Our community thrives through care.
Free submission opportunities for literature and visual art. Virtual and local open mic nights. Spotlight features for creatives, small businesses, and advocacy projects. Publishing, formatting, and editing minority manuscripts. As well as sharing tools, resources, and knowledge without gatekeeping the opportunities for others.
These initiatives are designed to amplify voices that might otherwise go unheard. They also create a community centered on care and creativity.
Consider this:
Can you recall the last time you saw a creative space built to prioritize care over commerce?
A space where emotion, expression, and truth are valued more than reputation or money?
If you’ve experienced that before, please comment below.
Tell me what inclusion and advocacy in creativity mean to you.
Personal Mission:
Live Loud, Love Fully
Be loud, Love more, live more, and make more memories. Embrace sustainable, healthy, intentional living. While taking action for change, instead of just talking about it. I want to be someone I would have looked up to when I was six. While I live a life I will be proud of when I’m sixty-six.
Every choice in my life, and every word on the page, aims to create real impact in the communities I occupy. This impact reaches both online and offline.
Anti-Capitalist Values
Living fully also means fighting for fairness and equity in the arts and society.
Being anti-capitalist isn’t just an idea, it’s a way of living. I support independent creators and small businesses, trade, and barter, or exchange art, tools, services, and skills whenever possible. I dive into hobbies that are cheap, sustainable, and meaningful. Support shop local over corporate whenever I can. While I prioritize community connection over consumption. Each choice I make, from swapping a poem for a painting to lending my time to help another creative mind grow, is a stand against a system. This system profits off gatekeeping, exclusion, and unnecessary spending. Living this way keeps me rooted in action, not just rhetoric. While I ensure my life and creative work reflect the world I want to see.
Being the Change, Not Just Talking About It
I’m done waiting for others to make the world better while everyone just talks about wanting change. My mission is to actively create the change I want to see, starting with every word I write. Closely followed by every space I build.
This looks like :
Being the change for me means living loud, refusing to conform, and turning ideals into action every single day. It’s calling and writing my representatives, showing up at protests, lobbying for policies that protect marginalized communities. Creating art that doubles as advocacy, and document or challenge injustice. Community building and spaces where care, creativity, and equality are central. Safely sharing knowledge about laws, rallies, and initiatives so others can act, too. Then I spread the word, amplify minority voices, practice mutual aid, and actively support movements instead of waiting for someone else to lead. Every thing I do, I do in a manner that acts as a step toward justice, visibility, and collective empowerment. This is about more than saying we want change; it’s creating, showing up, sharing, teaching, and living the change.
Day by day.
Word by word.
Act by act.
Change isn’t abstract. It’s tangible. Every action. This is how I transform ideals into practice, how I make “wanting change” equal actual change.
If this mission resonates, share this post with a poet, artist, or creative minority or ally. Especially if they need to see that art can be inclusive. Let’s show others art and literature can be accessible, without boundaries.
Share it with anyone who you think would like to submit to community collaborations. Or anyone who might benefit from resources. If they could thrive in this community in any way or benefit, they are welcomed.
Poeaxtry and the Prism is more than publishing. It’s an entire movement of community liberation in creativity.
Submit your poetry, photography, art, or prose, and essays for inclusion in our digital quarterlies. Submit for free by form or by emailing poeaxtryspoetryprism@gmail.com
Join a creative community and get involved in contests, critics, or virtual open mic nights. As well as curating your own collaborative content or joining in on others!
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