"it is easier to create something other people criticize than to create nothing and criticize others"

it's that simple folks. what you have to realize is that it is easy to criticize, but very hard to make something worth criticizing. honestly I feel like I lost so much time to worrying about what other people think. what is the point? when I looked around at life and who was successful, who was popular, who was perceived as good, and who had access to power, something became wildly apparent. 

being any of those things had nothing to do with anything. people called smart could be dumb as rocks, people seen as virtuous could be evil, people accused of holding all the cards could be completely helpless. in truth, how one is perceived has absolutely nothing to do with reality. I had gone through life victimized again and again by patriarchal bullshit and coordinated smear campaigns, the whole time everyone acting as if I had done anything to deserve it.

your truth has absolutely nothing to do with public opinion, therefore you should disregard such every time you aim for self expression. if the instagram algorithm is to be believed in fact, I am most popular with the public when I am unpopular. funny how that works!

when you create, judgement should be reserved for after the fact. just make the thing already, you have time for self doubt later. imagine you wasted time not making it and it was bad anyway. wouldn't you rather have already done it so you can try something else?

what I loved about posting everyday was the sketchbook or journal quality. every day was a chance to decide, who am I today? although the haters hated to see me so successful and institutionally penalized me for such, my reign of fame and terror has been worth it.

remember when you hesitate to create, do you want the haters to win?

I think not. so record, draw, paint, dance, write, scream, pounce, do it!

all we have to lose is our chains.

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makes you think.