aly de la cruz yip (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary community-engaged artist and caregiver. They are a queer and disabled non-binary femme of mixed Filipinx and Chinese ancestry, a child of migrant and immigrant settlers, born and raised on the stolen and unceded lands of the sḵwx̱wú7mesh, sel̓íl̓witulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations.
They strive to unlearn colonial violence (not only by freeing themselves from internalized racism, but by centering their unlearning of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism, extending and embodying gratitude and repair) and learn how to move gently as a guest on these territories that nourish and sustain them and their family.
aly’s work explores gender chaos, chronic illness, diasporic feels, intergenerational trauma—all, thru: clown, film, sound, drawing, installation – always searching for places of resonance and resistance.