01/09/2026
After 15 years of building and growing a successful photography business, I’ve made a decision rooted in conscience and integrity.
Going forward, I will not offer my professional photography services to MAGA or Trump supporters.
Photography is not neutral. It is relational. It is intimate. It is emotional labor. And I will not smile politely, create “beautiful long-lasting memories,” or profit from people who support systems that harm, exclude, or endanger others, particularly brown, q***r, immigrant, and otherwise marginalized and historically oppressed communities.
This is not about partisan disagreement. This is about ethics, human dignity, and refusing to be complicit in harm.
I refuse to associate myself or my business with people who support or excuse policies and rhetoric that dehumanize immigrants seeking citizenship, endanger marginalized communities, erode civil rights, and normalize cruelty and authoritarianism.
I am a mother raising children in this world, holding devastation and rage in my body while pouring love from my heart. I shield them from how deeply this affects me, and I continue to fight fiercely anyway. Because it is for them. For the safer, kinder, more just world they deserve to grow up and raise their future children in.
As a senior in a Bachelor of Social Work program, guided by the NASW Code of Ethics and committed to human dignity, social justice, and challenging systems of oppression, I cannot ethically separate my work from my values.
This is not me being a “snowflake” or any other name used to dismiss people like me who reject the Trump regime. This is me being brave, standing firm, and STAYING TRUE to myself, my children, and future generations.
My boundary is clear, intentional, and final. And I will continue using my voice and my work in the service of care, justice, and the people this world too often leaves behind.
