Welcome New Staff Writers

Art for Ourselves is honored to welcome Angela Lemus-Mogrovejo and Nghia Nguyen the writing team. Keep an eye out for their incredible work in our upcoming November issue. Until then, you can take a look below and get to know a bit about these two incredible community members.

Angela Lemus-Mogrovejo

Angela Lemus-Mogrovejo is a twenty-something bigender,disabled, trans femme of color working on creating kindness in a world that at times seems all but devoid of care. In her life, care, support, and liberation for marginalized communities form the core of her life interests. Whether this be for chronically ill femmes of color ignored in disability rights work, Queer and Trans women of color pushed out of mainstream LGBT orgs, or just low-income and poor folks in general, her concerns always lie with those delegated to the margins of activist work. She comes to AFO with experience mainly with disability justice and politics centered on communities of color, especially for disabled Queer/Trans folk tokenized by even radical left spaces. In her spare time, she plays music, writes poems, plays Magic the Gathering, and looks forward to having stable income at some future point. She hopes to spread love and care for all, with dreams that one day this world can be one in which all marginalized folk can be cared for.

Nghia Nguyen

Nghia ninjas the tightrope of intersectional identities such as male, woman of color, transgender, Chinese, Vietnamese, and she fought to be a survivor, artist and activist. She was born in Vietnam a decade after the Fall of Saigon, raised in Southern California, and sharpened her political teeth in Portland, Oregon. Nghia writes to break the silence and chains that have been enforced on her through colonization, sexism, racism, and transphobia; she writes because it is an act of de-colonization and an act of resistance against the oppressor. Her work challenges our notion of identities, relationships, and journeys. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her partner and 2 cats where she is working to disrupt, dismantle and disarm structures of White Supremacists Capitalist Heteronormative Imperialist Patriarchy for an equitable future.