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It's the CCWS May book review! This month's read is:

🔗ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK (As We Know It)🔗
Edited by Craig Fortier, Edward Hon-Sing Wong and MJ Rwigema
Published by @btlbooks

ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK is a collection of critical perspectives that dissect the machine of Canadian social work. It blends statistics, histories, and anecdotes to deliver a compelling case that the general public is largely unaware of or ignorant to: social work is a colonial carceral practice, with social workers employed as “soft cops” who surveil, report, and punish individuals for bad behaviour as per the laws by-and-for the ruling class.

Why Char (an adoptee artist and survivor) recommends this book:

🔗Recent writings by people actively entangled with social work and family policing in Canada, including survivors.

🔗Provides concrete actions on how to abolish social work and family policing (hint: see below page photo)

🔗Helps me see people also committed to abolition in my locale, and it fires me up to keep doing this work together.

#bookreview #socialwork #familypolicing

It's the CCWS May book review! This month's read is:

🔗ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK (As We Know It)🔗
Edited by Craig Fortier, Edward Hon-Sing Wong and MJ Rwigema
Published by @btlbooks

ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK is a collection of critical perspectives that dissect the machine of Canadian social work. It blends statistics, histories, and anecdotes to deliver a compelling case that the general public is largely unaware of or ignorant to: social work is a colonial carceral practice, with social workers employed as “soft cops” who surveil, report, and punish individuals for bad behaviour as per the laws by-and-for the ruling class.

Why Char (an adoptee artist and survivor) recommends this book:

🔗Recent writings by people actively entangled with social work and family policing in Canada, including survivors.

🔗Provides concrete actions on how to abolish social work and family policing (hint: see below page photo)

🔗Helps me see people also committed to abolition in my locale, and it fires me up to keep doing this work together.

#bookreview #socialwork #familypolicing

It's the CCWS May book review! This month's read is:

🔗ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK (As We Know It)🔗
Edited by Craig Fortier, Edward Hon-Sing Wong and MJ Rwigema
Published by @btlbooks

ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK is a collection of critical perspectives that dissect the machine of Canadian social work. It blends statistics, histories, and anecdotes to deliver a compelling case that the general public is largely unaware of or ignorant to: social work is a colonial carceral practice, with social workers employed as “soft cops” who surveil, report, and punish individuals for bad behaviour as per the laws by-and-for the ruling class.

Why Char (an adoptee artist and survivor) recommends this book:

🔗Recent writings by people actively entangled with social work and family policing in Canada, including survivors.

🔗Provides concrete actions on how to abolish social work and family policing (hint: see below page photo)

🔗Helps me see people also committed to abolition in my locale, and it fires me up to keep doing this work together.

#bookreview #socialwork #familypolicing

It's the CCWS May book review! This month's read is:

🔗ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK (As We Know It)🔗
Edited by Craig Fortier, Edward Hon-Sing Wong and MJ Rwigema
Published by @btlbooks

ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK is a collection of critical perspectives that dissect the machine of Canadian social work. It blends statistics, histories, and anecdotes to deliver a compelling case that the general public is largely unaware of or ignorant to: social work is a colonial carceral practice, with social workers employed as “soft cops” who surveil, report, and punish individuals for bad behaviour as per the laws by-and-for the ruling class.

Why Char (an adoptee artist and survivor) recommends this book:

🔗Recent writings by people actively entangled with social work and family policing in Canada, including survivors.

🔗Provides concrete actions on how to abolish social work and family policing (hint: see below page photo)

🔗Helps me see people also committed to abolition in my locale, and it fires me up to keep doing this work together.

#bookreview #socialwork #familypolicing

It's the CCWS May book review! This month's read is:

🔗ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK (As We Know It)🔗
Edited by Craig Fortier, Edward Hon-Sing Wong and MJ Rwigema
Published by @btlbooks

ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK is a collection of critical perspectives that dissect the machine of Canadian social work. It blends statistics, histories, and anecdotes to deliver a compelling case that the general public is largely unaware of or ignorant to: social work is a colonial carceral practice, with social workers employed as “soft cops” who surveil, report, and punish individuals for bad behaviour as per the laws by-and-for the ruling class.

Why Char (an adoptee artist and survivor) recommends this book:

🔗Recent writings by people actively entangled with social work and family policing in Canada, including survivors.

🔗Provides concrete actions on how to abolish social work and family policing (hint: see below page photo)

🔗Helps me see people also committed to abolition in my locale, and it fires me up to keep doing this work together.

#bookreview #socialwork #familypolicing

It's the CCWS May book review! This month's read is:

🔗ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK (As We Know It)🔗
Edited by Craig Fortier, Edward Hon-Sing Wong and MJ Rwigema
Published by @btlbooks

ABOLISH SOCIAL WORK is a collection of critical perspectives that dissect the machine of Canadian social work. It blends statistics, histories, and anecdotes to deliver a compelling case that the general public is largely unaware of or ignorant to: social work is a colonial carceral practice, with social workers employed as “soft cops” who surveil, report, and punish individuals for bad behaviour as per the laws by-and-for the ruling class.

Why Char (an adoptee artist and survivor) recommends this book:

🔗Recent writings by people actively entangled with social work and family policing in Canada, including survivors.

🔗Provides concrete actions on how to abolish social work and family policing (hint: see below page photo)

🔗Helps me see people also committed to abolition in my locale, and it fires me up to keep doing this work together.

#bookreview #socialwork #familypolicing

smoky eye mask for my brother @limpriss . A timeeeeeee was had making this together (I sew, he stones) but we made it happen in one night! And it was all worth the grand prize moment 🏆 you just had to be there (because I do not have a closeup of the final finished mask lol)

#costumedesign #sewing

Bring it as Sailor Pluto.... AGAIN.
😇2022 runway at @dixonmusic Back2School Ball
😈2026 bizarre at @saturnsxroyalty Guardians of the Galaxy Ball

We contain multitudes! Be everything and anything! Ballroom is for becoming - in real time, amongst your peers, supported by family. A constant messy WIP yet you feel complete at each step toward as moving target.

My runway has raaaaaanaway, I'm in my bizarre and best dressed bag deeply. But never forget where I first stomped!!!

The most embarrassing clip to ever exist of me voguing 😭😭😭 shoutouts to all the houses that prospected me because they saw potential way back when even tho that 2022 catwalk has me looking like an inflated noodle man outside a car dealership fckkkkk LOL

Don't forget: you can learn to vogue every Tuesday with @torontokikiballroomalliance @mrmapleleaf at @wildseedcentre

👹BIZARRE or 👽BAZAAR

Did you know these are different categories in ballroom? Sound off in the comments if you know the what's what! Can't wait to show more process and of course my grand prize moment 🏆

PS. I was gaggggged at how solid resin becomes. No sewing through this, just me and my drill damn.

TRANS BALL 2by @ballroomtransinitiative
Thank you @fisforfraser for cultivating this space towards funding a trans retreat!

🏆GRAND PRIZE 🏆
GNC and OVERALL STREETWEAR

My cyanotype Juicy tracksuit has been waiting 10 months for this moment. During my summer residency at @401richmond @textile_studio I created this piece as continued research from my solo gallery show UNADOPT ME - an exploration of queer trans familyhood in relationship to my transnational transracial adoption and estrangement. I photo-developed 50 Juicy family photos using the cyanotype method onto the cut pattern pieces before sewing up the jacket and pants.

This is an archive of family bonds, a snapshot of ballroom history, and finally it returns to the place where community lives. I love you forever and always @houseofjuicycouture_ca no matter where or when.

🧃🧃🧃GODZAZA CHARDONNAY JUICY

📸 peep the cyanotype process ft. me praying to the UV index lol

TRANS BALL 2by @ballroomtransinitiative
Thank you @fisforfraser for cultivating this space towards funding a trans retreat!

🏆GRAND PRIZE 🏆
GNC and OVERALL STREETWEAR

My cyanotype Juicy tracksuit has been waiting 10 months for this moment. During my summer residency at @401richmond @textile_studio I created this piece as continued research from my solo gallery show UNADOPT ME - an exploration of queer trans familyhood in relationship to my transnational transracial adoption and estrangement. I photo-developed 50 Juicy family photos using the cyanotype method onto the cut pattern pieces before sewing up the jacket and pants.

This is an archive of family bonds, a snapshot of ballroom history, and finally it returns to the place where community lives. I love you forever and always @houseofjuicycouture_ca no matter where or when.

🧃🧃🧃GODZAZA CHARDONNAY JUICY

📸 peep the cyanotype process ft. me praying to the UV index lol

TRANS BALL 2by @ballroomtransinitiative
Thank you @fisforfraser for cultivating this space towards funding a trans retreat!

🏆GRAND PRIZE 🏆
GNC and OVERALL STREETWEAR

My cyanotype Juicy tracksuit has been waiting 10 months for this moment. During my summer residency at @401richmond @textile_studio I created this piece as continued research from my solo gallery show UNADOPT ME - an exploration of queer trans familyhood in relationship to my transnational transracial adoption and estrangement. I photo-developed 50 Juicy family photos using the cyanotype method onto the cut pattern pieces before sewing up the jacket and pants.

This is an archive of family bonds, a snapshot of ballroom history, and finally it returns to the place where community lives. I love you forever and always @houseofjuicycouture_ca no matter where or when.

🧃🧃🧃GODZAZA CHARDONNAY JUICY

📸 peep the cyanotype process ft. me praying to the UV index lol

TRANS BALL 2by @ballroomtransinitiative
Thank you @fisforfraser for cultivating this space towards funding a trans retreat!

🏆GRAND PRIZE 🏆
GNC and OVERALL STREETWEAR

My cyanotype Juicy tracksuit has been waiting 10 months for this moment. During my summer residency at @401richmond @textile_studio I created this piece as continued research from my solo gallery show UNADOPT ME - an exploration of queer trans familyhood in relationship to my transnational transracial adoption and estrangement. I photo-developed 50 Juicy family photos using the cyanotype method onto the cut pattern pieces before sewing up the jacket and pants.

This is an archive of family bonds, a snapshot of ballroom history, and finally it returns to the place where community lives. I love you forever and always @houseofjuicycouture_ca no matter where or when.

🧃🧃🧃GODZAZA CHARDONNAY JUICY

📸 peep the cyanotype process ft. me praying to the UV index lol

TRANS BALL 2by @ballroomtransinitiative
Thank you @fisforfraser for cultivating this space towards funding a trans retreat!

🏆GRAND PRIZE 🏆
GNC and OVERALL STREETWEAR

My cyanotype Juicy tracksuit has been waiting 10 months for this moment. During my summer residency at @401richmond @textile_studio I created this piece as continued research from my solo gallery show UNADOPT ME - an exploration of queer trans familyhood in relationship to my transnational transracial adoption and estrangement. I photo-developed 50 Juicy family photos using the cyanotype method onto the cut pattern pieces before sewing up the jacket and pants.

This is an archive of family bonds, a snapshot of ballroom history, and finally it returns to the place where community lives. I love you forever and always @houseofjuicycouture_ca no matter where or when.

🧃🧃🧃GODZAZA CHARDONNAY JUICY

📸 peep the cyanotype process ft. me praying to the UV index lol

TRANS BALL 2by @ballroomtransinitiative
Thank you @fisforfraser for cultivating this space towards funding a trans retreat!

🏆GRAND PRIZE 🏆
GNC and OVERALL STREETWEAR

My cyanotype Juicy tracksuit has been waiting 10 months for this moment. During my summer residency at @401richmond @textile_studio I created this piece as continued research from my solo gallery show UNADOPT ME - an exploration of queer trans familyhood in relationship to my transnational transracial adoption and estrangement. I photo-developed 50 Juicy family photos using the cyanotype method onto the cut pattern pieces before sewing up the jacket and pants.

This is an archive of family bonds, a snapshot of ballroom history, and finally it returns to the place where community lives. I love you forever and always @houseofjuicycouture_ca no matter where or when.

🧃🧃🧃GODZAZA CHARDONNAY JUICY

📸 peep the cyanotype process ft. me praying to the UV index lol

TRANS BALL 2by @ballroomtransinitiative
Thank you @fisforfraser for cultivating this space towards funding a trans retreat!

🏆GRAND PRIZE 🏆
GNC and OVERALL STREETWEAR

My cyanotype Juicy tracksuit has been waiting 10 months for this moment. During my summer residency at @401richmond @textile_studio I created this piece as continued research from my solo gallery show UNADOPT ME - an exploration of queer trans familyhood in relationship to my transnational transracial adoption and estrangement. I photo-developed 50 Juicy family photos using the cyanotype method onto the cut pattern pieces before sewing up the jacket and pants.

This is an archive of family bonds, a snapshot of ballroom history, and finally it returns to the place where community lives. I love you forever and always @houseofjuicycouture_ca no matter where or when.

🧃🧃🧃GODZAZA CHARDONNAY JUICY

📸 peep the cyanotype process ft. me praying to the UV index lol

I love dancing with my friends in the sunshine. A reminder to have funnnnn and feel free.

Being whimsical with choreographer @de.brii and dancers @tylerqyan @tatum.exp_

This showing is supported by Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) Eyes on Beginnings Works-In-Progress Series: Spring 2026 Sharing at the Winchester Street Theatre.
@torontodancetheatre @winchesterstreettheatre

CHRONIC PUNK CRIP WAACK: THE WAACK

Please watch the full tutorial and read the full caption on @the.6th.sense.collective YouTube:

https://youtu.be/jSOOe51PyyA

What is CRIP WAACK? Waacking for crippled (crip) folks of course!

Waacking is the modern evolution of Punking. Revived in the 2000s NYC street dance battle scene, it is most commonly practiced in street dance battles and studio classes, with occasional appearances in commercial dance work. By Cripping the element of the “waack”, where power and speed would traditionally reign superior, we choose to crip-max slowness. We turn the element into hyper-slow and gentle gestures that can be explored via studies of anatomy chains and spiral fascia.

What happens when we shift from performing prowess to authentic representations of crip and chronic pain spectrums allow us to move between celebratory and catastrophic embodiment?

CPCW and THE SIXTH SENSE COLLECTIVE is supported by @artreachtoronto @torontodancetheatre @canasiandance @tolivegram
Videography and editing by @oneofakynd27

#punking #waacking #disabilty #streetdance disableddancerm

CHRONIC PUNK CRIP WAACK: POSING

Please watch the full tutorial and read the full caption on @the.6th.sense.collective YouTube:

https://youtu.be/BOXzDfhtOoE

Centering the Punking element of "posing"— originally based on 1920s silent film starlets, we instead filter our “poses” through the lens of chronic pain, inspired by our own crip photos and other chronically ill folks in all their agency and power. Posing and storytelling shifts to everyday real events, movement patterns, and gestures of disability, such as physiotherapy, self-massage, and using mobility devices.

What poses arise when you source from an embodied disabled experience rather than an aesthetic ideal?

CPCW and THE SIXTH SENSE COLLECTIVE is supported by @artreachtoronto @torontodancetheatre @canasiandance @tolivegram
Videography and editing by @oneofakynd27

#punking #waacking #disabilty #streetdance #disableddancer

I’m still unpacking feelings of shame, guilt, and embarrassment around my disabilities ft. big phat existential cries about the body/mind/spirit I thought I could keep, but it’s gonna be ok. It’s been a year of upsetting unsettling health changes, but CHRONIC PUNK CRIP WAACK (CPCW) with @cass.myers.poetry as @the.6th.sense.collective has been the antidote that gives me rest, peace, and agency. With some shyness but also great fulfillment, I’m sharing a sample of our CPCW sizzle reel to summarize our 2+ years of dance research.

So tell me,
What is disabled street dance to you?

MORE ABOUT SIXTH SENSE COLLECTIVE and CPCW:

The physical intensity and flexibility requirements of the modern waacking evolution often excludes disabled dancers. SIXTH SENSE COLLECTIVE came together after failed attempts to disable street dance separately, such as mis-informed instructors and ableist dance environments. Current approaches to disabled dance are based in segregation rather than integration of disabled dancers, and this is regularly embraced as a therapeutic method, locating disability as an individual medical problem not a social justice issue. Dance for disabled people is often limited to wheelchair dance using silks, or folks with limb differences or involves non-disabled dance partners to “elevate” the dance quality that panders to able bodied audiences by focusing on a performance of able bodiedness instead of processes of radical disability justice.As a genre all on its own, CHRONIC PUNK CRIP WAACK levels the dance hierarchy with participants being active contributors to the creation and development of the dance praxis. This project is an ongoing call-in for non-disabled street dance teachers, leaders, and practitioners to be curious, compassionate, and accountable to how disability justice is essential to fostering community. As such, SIXTH SENSE COLLECTIVE’s long term goal is to launch a “crip street dance community”, beginning with this duo.

This footage is from our December 2025 residency, thank you @torontodancetheatre @canasiandance .
Video and edit by @oneofakynd27

This is 100% real footage of my sewing process lol. Stay sexy and stay dancing, never let it slip even when you're sewing in a jacket lining. Do whatever it takes to stay on task you f🥖procrastinators!

#sewing #costumedesign #costumedesigner

The Canadian all-american runway superstar @sayeeed_leone of the iconic @miyakemugler.official @miyakemugler.mc in a hockey inspired suit jacket for BLACK LIBERATION BALL by @mrmapleleaf @brandonhay8 @kingmaasai7

Suits may look simple, but have many inner layers that provide the structure (you know the saying "folds like a cheap suit", it's because the cheap ones cheap out on canvas, interfacing, and taping).

🪡 XXL padded shoulders
🪡 lace up back with grommet tape
🪡 contrast sleeves and lapels with ribbon stripe detail
🪡 full canvas suit front and back
🪡 fully lined (of course).

#costumedesign #sewing #fashion