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Description: The My Dearest Friends Project is a COVID-19 art collaboration centering disability. MDFP has been collecting stories from disabled individuals across the globe since the start of the pandemic. You've found our merch! Go check out @MyDearestFriendsProject on Instagram to learn how you can participate! Product Description: handwritten in white charcoal are the words, "The My Dearest Friends Project" illustrated below is a group of disabled individuals with physical, mental, invisible, and visible disabilities.
Description: Oaklee Thiele is an artist, disability rights activist, and the co-creator of The Dearest Friends Project. About the project she says, " If you are disabled, your right to exist freely and unapologetically is not guaranteed. And so, for us, the Disabled, remaining silent is not an option. We have to make our voices heard if we are to survive this pandemic." Follow @OakleeThiele on Instagram to learn more! Product Description: abstract charcoal drawing of Oaklee Thiele. She wears an artist apron and holds a cane in one hand and the leash to her service dog in the other. The words, "My Dearest Friends Project" are handwritten beside her.
Description: Product Description: black short sleeve tee with small handwritten words in the upper left chest that read, "The My Dearest Friends Project" on the back of the tee Oaklee Thiele's original poem is handwritten in white lettering that reads, "My Dearest Friends We mustn't let this be forgotten--the time the world gained perspective on a small portion of our struggles. We must make sure that this moment goes down in history so that we can build a better world, a more accessible world, a world for everyone, a world for us. -Oaklee
