✰ Kiefy Ethos & Care Guidelines ✰

We are a lefty, queer, SWANA, and immigrant-run third place dedicated to art, community, and collective expression. Our studio exists as a direct response and resistance to suppression of liberatory creative practices, capitalist & exploitative institutions, and cultural erasure.

OUR PRIORITIES

• This is a queer safe space — please be mindful of the sacredness.

• Centering South West Asian/North African/Global South voices and resisting imperialism

• No Zionists, no occupation apologists, no loyalty to empires. Honoring the work and stories of displaced peoples.

• We reject capitalistic grind culture; rest and mutual aid are sacred.

WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT INFORMS OUR WORK

• Neutrality is a dangerous liberal myth.

• Communication about work, labor, and capacity is not conflict.

• No Pinkwashing or institutional/corporate "pride" or “DEI” projects.

• No Cops, No ICE. We do not work with state actors.

• Non-carceral and non-punitive ways of thinking and being.

• Kill the cop in our head.