VIVA RUIZ is the daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants and a community and nightlife educated advocate and artist living and working in New York City. The underlying thrust of all mediums is to destroy white supremacy and exorcize the colonial / colonized mindset. Two recent notable highlights: programming sex education and practical spirituality workshops as an invited curator for the New Museum’s "Scamming the Patriarchy" youth event and "ProAbortion Shakira: A Thank God For Abortion Introspective" a 5 week solo show at Participant Inc showing collected works and hosting conversations within the multimedia abortion destigmatization experiment THANK GOD FOR ABORTION.     Tee shirts and other propaganda available at: www.thankgodforabortion.com #thankgodforabortion www.vivaruiz.com insta @thankgodforabortion / @chocolatinaruiz FB Thank God For Abortion Shout Your Abortion: "Our stories are ours to tell. This is not a debate." National Network of Abortion Funds https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/  https://www.plannedparenthood.org/