Our Story
I create because I must. I sell my art because I can’t keep it all, and because the only thing more fulfilling is watching it complement someone else’s life. My art lets me connect with people in ways I don’t have language for, and it satisfies me like nothing else to know that something I made with my own hands is a source of joy in other peoples’ lives.
Travesty LLC is queer owned and operated. We believe that black lives matter, that trans lives matter, that indigenous peoples deserve justice, that intersectionality and constant growth are requirements for ethical living.
I am Jewish and pale, bisexual and strongly asexual, non-binary and bearded, neuro-divergent but entertaining. I have used passing privilege for years to avoid conflict but that made bigoted people comfortable approaching and confiding in me - it wore me down.
I undertook the risk of expressing myself the way I wanted and discovered something incredible: bigots can’t stand it, my queer friends have more space to be loud and out, my POC friends have to be on guard less, my traumatized and neuro-divergent friends are more confident communicating what they’re feeling.
Travesty LLC is about finding my space and living in a way that evolves and makes more of the world, even a small part of it, safer for others.
I’ve been doing this a long time…
…though I never learned to get out of the way of the exhaust.