I dedicate this work to every uncounted and forgotten Tobias, from Africa to the innercity streets of America. Every year I choose a day to celebrate Tobias, my African LBGTQ ancestor, by dressing in all white clothing or in my true nakedness. I invite someone to eat, enjoy a movie, spoken word, and raps, and singing, or reciting introspective poetry that is ethnographic in content. Dance and just be.
I cut my hair into a fro-hawk style to recognize the Mohawk tribe that embraced a white man and his African slave boy and/or lover without sexual orientation discrimination.
And now the perceived image of Tobias is now the face of the historical-first-ever California condemned LGBTQ spirituality group, a group that produces The Sound Mind Streamer for the spiritual edification of the most undeserved prison subculture communities, where every day is Tobias Day.
From victim to victor, I am Tobias. We are Tobias. Discovering each other again.
Today marks my eighth year of cutting another version of ethnographic stylings of the "fro-hawk" into my hair.
I've seen other Africans in this hairstyle. I can't wait until all of my hair is totally gray so I can really rock it in winter. I do this one time every year. I invite you to join us in our new tradition of honor, love, and unity.
Year one: adorn frohawk for 24 hours and cut to a new journey. Second year: adorn frohawk for 48 hours and cut to a new journey. Third year, three days. Fourth year, four days. And so on—until your forever.
Today ends the eighth day. At midnight, I cut to a new journey—to invite us all to look for each other, find each other, find and care for each other, and lead each other by the creation of new ideas and actions that encourage us all to think for ourselves, provide for each other, forgive those who cause us harm, and fight for our right of universal nature to exist as we are, in our own space, open to each other.
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I cut my hair into a fro-hawk style to recognize the Mohawk tribe that embraced a white man and his African slave boy and/or lover without sexual orientation discrimination.
And now the perceived image of Tobias is now the face of the historical-first-ever California condemned LGBTQ spirituality group, a group that produces The Sound Mind Streamer for the spiritual edification of the most undeserved prison subculture communities, where every day is Tobias Day.
From victim to victor, I am Tobias. We are Tobias. Discovering each other again.
Today marks my eighth year of cutting another version of ethnographic stylings of the "fro-hawk" into my hair.
I've seen other Africans in this hairstyle. I can't wait until all of my hair is totally gray so I can really rock it in winter. I do this one time every year. I invite you to join us in our new tradition of honor, love, and unity.
Year one: adorn frohawk for 24 hours and cut to a new journey. Second year: adorn frohawk for 48 hours and cut to a new journey. Third year, three days. Fourth year, four days. And so on—until your forever.
Today ends the eighth day. At midnight, I cut to a new journey—to invite us all to look for each other, find each other, find and care for each other, and lead each other by the creation of new ideas and actions that encourage us all to think for ourselves, provide for each other, forgive those who cause us harm, and fight for our right of universal nature to exist as we are, in our own space, open to each other.
Tobias, badiare.