Everything comes from somewhere.
The Mitad Palma collection is a series of art, jewelry, and adornment handmade in South Central Los Angeles from found, harvested, gifted, and collected materials. This project focused on closing the life cycle of products and bringing money back into the countries and people whose resources we use all over the world. The mission is to redistribute money into the hands of those in crisis areas, affected by exploitation and violence. Supporting equal access for all people.

When you support me you support the way I live. You support the street food vendors, swap meets, and local businesses of Los Angeles, and my community of other queer multicultural/multiethnic artists. You support the critical thinking of how to dismantle harmful systems. You support time and dedication to becoming a more forgiving, more loving, more caring person.

With the purchase of every item in this collection, a portion will be sent back to the following organizations:

• LA Street Care: working to provide mutual aid for unhoused people in Los Angeles https://opencollective.com/lastreetcare

• World Central Kitchen: Providing meals to people in crisis-impacted areas. https://wck.org/

• SAPA Sudanese American Physicians Association: Sudan Relief Fund for Sudanese Refugees https://sapa-usa.org/sudan-war-crisis-emergency-relief/

• Urgent Gaza Relief Fund and Recovery: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund @thepcrf on Instagram

• CARE org: responding to ongoing crisis-impacted areas in Ecuador and providing resources to Venezuelan refugees https://www.care.org/our-work/where-we-work/ecuador/

• United We Dream: immigrant youth-led network in the U.S., fighting for the dignity and respect of all immigrants https://unitedwedream.org/

• TeamCongo.rdc aid to Congo @teamcongo.rdc on IG