Nico Fonseca
Nico Fonseca
Nico (they/them/ella/elle) is a neurodivergent, recovering community organizer. They are a fat painter, maker, healer, lover, sick, queer and gender expansive creature being. With roots in Lenapehoking land, and the west side of Borikén, they were raised by their mother and her mother, red dirt, sweet water, and bodegas. Part of their sacred work is unveiling pleasure and desire. They explore how safety, care and wellness feel when we ground our pleasure and desire through a decolonial praxis of abundance, consent, interdependence, autonomy, access, and love. Their visual art invokes what these worlds look and feel like. Their political work embodies them through practice, studying, lots of messing up, and humbly committing to the unfolding. As the Program Associate for the Disability Frontlines Fund (DFF), Nico supports moving resources to communities led by and for disabled BIPOC communities grounded in Disability Justice in order to create impactful, intersectional and sustainable movements.