PUBLIC NOTICE TO PROTECT (2026) is a participatory street performance that transforms the bureaucratic language of eviction notices and immigration enforcement documents into declarations of collective care. Inspired by my organizing work in tenant and immigrant rights movements—where eviction notices and Notices to Appear routinely threaten displacement—the project examines the shared logic embedded in housing and immigration enforcement. If simple black ink on white paper can upend someone's life, what might colored ink on rainbow paper make possible in the liberated world we seek?

The project begins with a public station along York Boulevard where visitors are invited to complete brightly colored "Notices to Protect." Modeled after official paperwork, the forms ask: What do you want to protect here? What should never disappear from this street? What makes a community safe? Throughout the day, performers dressed as fabulous "community safety mothers" engage passersby in conversation before ceremonially serving and posting these notices throughout the neighborhood. By transforming the act of serving papers, the intervention turns documents of removal into declarations of presence, belonging, and collective responsibility. The costume was custom-made from colored Pro Club T shirts stitched together -- as a nod to the garment industry in Los Angeles, which was severely impacted 

Drawing inspiration from the words of Assata Shakur, Public Notice to Protect imagines a queered abolitionist future—one in which safety is cultivated by community caretakers rather than police, and where neighbors stake collective claims to protection, care, and permanence. The performance was commissioned as part of the 2026 LA Road Concerts.