LexMex, 2751 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA (2026)

06/18/2026

San Francisco Carnaval 2026 | Part 9 FINALE ✨
Carnaval is my whole heart. ❤️

There is something so powerful about seeing our communities come together to celebrate culture, identity, ancestry, resilience, and joy. We carry our ancestors with us everywhere we go, in the way we dance, the way we dress, the music that moves through our bodies, the art we create, and the love we pour into one another. Joy is something no one can take away from us.

Carnaval San Francisco reminds me that celebration is resistance. Dance is memory. Music is healing. Art is documentation of who we are and where we come from.

I love this city deeply, and the Mission really does have my heart. I hope these portraits reflect back the beauty, power, style, spirit, and love within our community. Thank you for allowing me to witness and document these moments.

Que viva Carnaval ❤️✨
xoxo,
LexMex

Please share, like, follow, and credit my work. This is my heart work. I’m an artist trying to thrive while documenting and celebrating our communities with care and intention

06/16/2026

SF Carnaval | Part 8

Carnaval is my whole heart. ❤️

There is something so powerful about seeing our communities come together to celebrate culture, identity, ancestry, resilience, and joy. We carry our ancestors with us everywhere we go, in the way we dance, the way we dress, the music that moves through our bodies, the art we create, and the love we pour into one another. Joy is something no one can take away from us.

Carnaval San Francisco reminds me that celebration is resistance. Dance is memory. Music is healing. Art is documentation of who we are and where we come from.

I love this city deeply, and the Mission really does have my heart. I hope these portraits reflect back the beauty, power, style, spirit, and love within our community. Thank you for allowing me to witness and document these moments.

Que viva Carnaval ❤️✨
xoxo,
LexMex

Please share, like, follow, and credit my work. This is my heart work. I’m an artist trying to thrive while documenting and celebrating our communities with care and intention.

05/28/2026

SF Carnaval | Part 6

Carnaval is my whole heart. ❤️

There is something so powerful about seeing our communities come together to celebrate culture, identity, ancestry, resilience, and joy. We carry our ancestors with us everywhere we go, in the way we dance, the way we dress, the music that moves through our bodies, the art we create, and the love we pour into one another. Joy is something no one can take away from us.

reminds me that celebration is resistance. Dance is memory. Music is healing. Art is documentation of who we are and where we come from.

I love this city deeply, and the Mission really does have my heart. I hope these portraits reflect back the beauty, power, style, spirit, and love within our community. Thank you for allowing me to witness and document these moments.

Que viva Carnaval ❤️✨
xoxo,
LexMex

Please share, like, follow, and credit my work. This is my heart work. I’m an artist trying to thrive while documenting and celebrating our communities with care and intention.

05/27/2026

SF Carnaval 2026 | Part 5
Carnaval is my whole heart. ❤️

There is something so powerful about seeing our communities come together to celebrate culture, identity, ancestry, resilience, and joy. We carry our ancestors with us everywhere we go, in the way we dance, the way we dress, the music that moves through our bodies, the art we create, and the love we pour into one another. Joy is something no one can take away from us.

reminds me that celebration is resistance. Dance is memory. Music is healing. Art is documentation of who we are and where we come from.

I love this city deeply, and the Mission really does have my heart. I hope these portraits reflect back the beauty, power, style, spirit, and love within our community. Thank you for allowing me to witness and document these moments.

Que viva Carnaval ❤️✨
xoxo,
LexMex

Please share, like, follow, and credit my work. This is my heart work. I’m an artist trying to thrive while documenting and celebrating our communities with care and intention.

05/26/2026

San Francisco Carnaval 2026 | Part 4
Carnaval is my whole heart. ❤️

There is something so powerful about seeing our communities come together to celebrate culture, identity, ancestry, resilience, and joy. We carry our ancestors with us everywhere we go, in the way we dance, the way we dress, the music that moves through our bodies, the art we create, and the love we pour into one another. Joy is something no one can take away from us.

reminds me that celebration is resistance. Dance is memory. Music is healing. Art is documentation of who we are and where we come from.

I love this city deeply, and the Mission really does have my heart. I hope these portraits reflect back the beauty, power, style, spirit, and love within our community. Thank you for allowing me to witness and document these moments.

Que viva Carnaval ❤️✨
xoxo,
LexMex

Please share, like, follow, and credit my work. This is my heart work. I’m an artist trying to thrive while documenting and celebrating our communities with care and intention

05/26/2026

San Francisco Carnaval 2026 | Part Three
Carnaval is my whole heart. ❤️

There is something so powerful about seeing our communities come together to celebrate culture, identity, ancestry, resilience, and joy. We carry our ancestors with us everywhere we go, in the way we dance, the way we dress, the music that moves through our bodies, the art we create, and the love we pour into one another. Joy is something no one can take away from us.

reminds me that celebration is resistance. Dance is memory. Music is healing. Art is documentation of who we are and where we come from.

I love this city deeply, and the Mission really does have my heart. I hope these portraits reflect back the beauty, power, style, spirit, and love within our community. Thank you for allowing me to witness and document these moments.

Que viva Carnaval ❤️✨
xoxo,
LexMex

Please share, like, follow, and credit my work. This is my heart work. I’m an artist trying to thrive while documenting and celebrating our communities with care and intention

05/26/2026

San Francisco Carnaval 2026 | Part Two
Carnaval is my whole heart. ❤️

There is something so powerful about seeing our communities come together to celebrate culture, identity, ancestry, resilience, and joy. We carry our ancestors with us everywhere we go, in the way we dance, the way we dress, the music that moves through our bodies, the art we create, and the love we pour into one another. Joy is something no one can take away from us.

reminds me that celebration is resistance. Dance is memory. Music is healing. Art is documentation of who we are and where we come from.

I love this city deeply, and the Mission really does have my heart. I hope these portraits reflect back the beauty, power, style, spirit, and love within our community. Thank you for allowing me to witness and document these moments.

Que viva Carnaval ❤️✨
xoxo,
LexMex

Please share, like, follow, and credit my work. This is my heart work. I’m an artist trying to thrive while documenting and celebrating our communities with care and intention

05/21/2026

Her Home (is)land

Kerri Ann “Ifit” Na’puti Borja carries Chamoru, Micronesian, and Pacific Islander identity as responsibility and inheritance. Rooted in San Francisco’s Southeast neighborhoods, Visitation Valley, Sunnydale, Bayview–Hunters Point, and the Excelsior. She understands culture as something that must be actively held, protected, and passed forward. To be a womyn who carries culture, for Ifit, is to carry her peoples’ traditions, histories, and values with pride for future generations of Chamorus and Pacific Islanders. When she shows up fully in community, she carries her ancestors, her home(is)land, her language, and the stories of her people, alongside a deep Marianas Trench love that grounds her movement through the world. As a carver of Chamoru alåhas, traditional and contemporary body adornments made from shells and natural materials. Ifit transmits culture through craft, story, and language. Each piece she creates holds memory and meaning, offering culture not as artifact, but as living knowledge shaped by hand, ocean, and lineage.

05/14/2026

I’m deeply honored to be co-creating this portrait project with the .museum , made possible through the Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation Randolph Newman Cultural Enrichment Endowment.

We are currently seeking 10 Native American women from across generations and tribal nations in the Santa Rosa area to take part in a portrait exhibition rooted in visibility, cultural memory, resilience, and pride. Each participant will be photographed in her traditional regalia, honoring the stories, traditions, and ancestral ties carried through generations.

Calling Native American women to represent their nations, their stories, and their strength.

Only 10 participants will be selected for this exhibition. If there is someone in your family or community whose presence deserves to be seen and celebrated, we invite you to nominate yourself or a loved one.

Submit nominations by July 10th.
Link in bio. Please share with community.

05/07/2026

Nekia moves through the world as a conduit of sound, ancestry, and restoration. Adorned with Shona and Ndebele jewelry from Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, her white feather headdress crowns her as both guide and guardian. In this portrait, her hands rest on her heart and lungs, breathing deeply, exhaling healing into the space around her. She carries music like breath, weaving rhythms and ancestral knowledge into medicine for body, mind, and spirit. Every gesture, every vibration, becomes an act of care, remembrance, and connection. Nekia’s practice as a healer, filmmaker, educator, and sound practitioner bridges continents and generations. Presence itself is her art, and through it, culture lives, ancestry is made tangible, and every breath becomes a gift of empowerment.

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