- I'm an immigrant.

I'm undocumented.

I'm queer.

- It looks good.

Hurry, just post that sh--!

- [Julio] I'm a pop culture fan.

Like, I watched that.

You know, like I grew up watching all the sitcoms.

And I didn't see myself in those stories.

They'll be like that queer character that usually is like, but it's a white character.

And then like, I didn't relate.

And so to me, I learned from that.

And I'm like, "Well then, I'm going to create something."

- [Favianna] My good friend, Gan.

Gan Golan.

Told me that I absolutely had to look .. That I was missing out.

So I looked at it.

And I was like, "Oh my god."

Your creative potential was just, just blew me away.

- And you were like, "Dude, you're an artist."

And I was like, "Uh, no, no, no.

Just drawing."

- You know, when I go to some of these art schools and give lectures, there is hardly any kids of color in these classes.

Myself, growing up, I never got to meet an artist who really represented the person I wanted to become.

Frida was already dead.

- [Julio] You're hearing all the stories that makes you feel like, should I go back in all the closets?

- Should I go back into the shadows of being undocumented?

Should I go back into the closet and not just talk about me being queer?

And the artist in me is like, no.

I think that, you know, seeing you and seeing other artist really helped me.

Being an immigrant, being all these things, you know that's what I identify as.

That's not all I am but I do, have owned being an artist that is influenced and who's work is informed by those identities.

- Share.

(laughs) - This looks amazing, by the way.

- Let's talk about the current times we live in.

- We live in an ecosystem of arts.

And I think that sometimes our movements don't really see the power or art.

And so we don't have enough people advocating for arts.

But when they're going after, like the very tiny pool of arts funding we have, It's the beginning of a war against culture.

And I think that we definitely need to have stories, especially now, of joy and pleasure and just our complicated humanity.

That the entire ecosystem of the arts does not have enough of us in it.

And I think that it's not just about us being represented.

It's about us having real power.

- Agreed.

- This is gonna be so awesome.

Oh my god!