Monica Trinidad standing in front of old covers of Black Panther Party newspapers with artwork by Emory Douglas.

​Monica Trinidad is a queer artist, organizer, podcast host, and comms strategist based in Chicago.

Latest Projects

For the 2021 Justseeds Community Supported Art (CSA) subscription, Fernando Marti and I collaborated virtually on a print. Given the prompt "portals between time, and learning from past movements", we thought about the portal that has been opened by the pandemic: the knowledge we have gained in this moment, and the possibilities this moment has allowed us to see. But those in power want to close that door again – “When we go back to normal.” And we need to keep letting the water and seeds flow through, collectively navigating this new world together. I brought in the quote from Naomi Murakawa's forward to Mariame Kaba's We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: "Kaba's abolitionist version burns so bright precisely because she refuses to be the single star, dazzling alone. Why be a star when you can make a constellation?" That phrase led to our final design. We traded sketches and thought about how to make a collaborative image over distance, each contributing a piece and then weaving it together digitally, and this was the result. 

Poster currently unavailable to the general public. Check back for updates in 2022.

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I recently collaborated with the People's Paper Co-Op to create this poster, Sounds of Abolition, to raise funds to free mamas! 100% of proceeds go to the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund campaign to bail people out for the holidays. It was an honor to create this poster alongside 9 other movements artists across North America, and in collaboration with such generous and visionary women at the Co-op.

You can purchase a full or partial set of all 10 posters at the People's Paper Co-op website.
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We Keep Each Other Safe in the Streets is a collaborative poster series that I curated in collaboration with Love & Protect, Street Youth Rise Up, Lifted Voices, Axis Lab, and TM Productions in October of 2020.

Artists like Molly Costello, Grae Rosa, Asha Edwards, and many more worked with the organizations and I to create illustrated posters demonstrating how we can tangibly keep our communities safe during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. 

You can download the posters here.

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Shop Artwork

–Purchase We Are All Bound Up Together at the Justseeds online shop! This piece was commissioned in the fall of 2020 for Haight Street Art Center’s exhibit, XIX: 2020 Vision, with artistic direction from Alexandra Fischer.

–Purchase a Reparations Now, Reparations Won poster at the Justseeds online shop; #136 in the Celebrate People's History Poster Series. Additionally, the poster is also in the new, second edition of the book, Celebrate People's History, edited by Josh MacPhee and published by Feminist Press; now available!

–Snag your Defend Our Communities, Defund Police t-shirt, designed by me in 2017 and revived for a second printing run, via American Friends Service Committee – Chicago.

News 

February 2021
Straight out the gate, a NYT Bestseller in just one week. Wow! Order your copy of We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba, published by Haymarket Books, edited by Tamara K. Nopper, and cover artwork by me! Truly an honor.