I DREAM LIBRARY

How I Get Through This Moment Is Art

June 12 - August 10, 2025 | Bentall Gallery

An exploration of 2SQTI/BIPoC creative resistance through centuries of bans, blockades, censorship, and segregation. Access to story, education, emotion, space, and place are investigated through visual and text based works featuring 2SQTI/BIPoC creators from across the Americas.

TYPOGRAPHY | SHAFIRA VIDYAMAHARANI

How to use this page

A portal to equity learning, teaching prompts, and systems change inspiration

  1. Click on the hyperlinks to learn more about each artist, designer, and storyteller.

  2. Click on the book titles to learn more about the story, creators, art, equity topics, and languages used in each one.

  3. Videos introduce the book’s themes and creators, to engage visual and auditory learners, and inspire equity conversations with students, colleagues friends and family

I’M JUST DOING MY JOB

Photography + creative direction | Zuleyma Prado, Aisha Kiani

2025

A triptych that engages the audience as a witness to censorship.

MAKERS IN THIS SPACE

Textile works by Zuleyma Prado, Aisha Kiani, Shafira Vidyamaharani, and Rakim

PULL THE ________

Conceptual mixed media + bookmarks | Aisha Kiani, Rakim, Shafira Vidyamaharani

2025

A library of curated text and bookmarks displayed on a service cart discusses the impermanence of access to 2SQTI/BIPoC knowledge in public education spaces. The curated collection of books serve as a reference library to be enjoyed onsite only. Bookmarks are objects empowering knowledge mobilization - please take one and share the learning.

Non-fiction | Exhibition Books | Memoirs | Novels | Graphic Novels | Plays

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Picture Books

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