Dane Nakama
This Story Is Being Written By Us
2021
Norfolk, VA
When I first started creating content I had one main goal to give back art to the people, that was also of the people I like many creators wanted share exactly how rich our cultures and stories can be aside from the histories we were taught to paint portraits of our identities that aren’t clouded by shame, hatred, or fear but illuminated in pride, embraced by the beauty of differences taking the time to see the spectrum of gorgeous hues and colors hidden within all shades of skin, types of love, spirits of faith, and forms of bodies humanizing narratives foreign to our own realizing that from our rich varied selves may only emerge a more colorful and vibrant reality
Today I am scared, I am angry, I am sad Wondering if this kaleidoscopic dream dripped across my eyelids May remain just a dream But I am reminded that it is possible
Because of this the ability to share a story that is, in this moment, being written by us. By those who know exactly how powerful WE can be
This story is being written by us
This story is being written by us