"Earth D(ec)ay" is about obviously climate change and our natural environments. My work advocates for the crucial need and preservation of natural spaces because they play a significant role in our healing and personal growth. Nature does not need us in order to survive, it is reversed, we need nature in order to survive. Echoing from the previous piece, our natural environments have been used as weapons of colonization and oppression and this continues through the rapid increase of industrial technologies in America. Not only has this been increasing the warming of the climate, but, has continually been keeping in place systems of environmental racism such as ghettos, deforestation, nuclear waste, dumping, food deserts, gentrification, natural disasters and the infiltration and burning of indigenous reserves.  The earth is always there and always feels pain. It feels it on the page we write on, the tree layers that we chipper away to make this paper and write lies on to the paper towels we use to clean up the messes of injustice. It feels from the contaminations of toxins, from the history of cigarette companies targeting black lungs to the dangerous gases exhausting from factories and cars. The Earth feels it from the cotton shirts, towels and blankets we wear everyday, the green money we touch and spend everyday. It feels even in the soap we wash ourselves and now our hands with to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Earth understood when Eric Garner said “I Can’t Breathe.” It has also been choked from the chemical poisons in the water from the oil spills in 2010 to lead exposure and poison in Flint, Michigan. Earth cries over the extinction of animals from poaching to the destruction of habitat to the lack of biodiversity and forage. Earth feels it all.  this piece acknowledges the suffering of the Earth and declares my position to defend her and her right to safety, space, and consistency and stability. I encourage others to participate in social justice efforts that fight to implement environmental policies that protect our natural environments and ecosystems around the world and in communities of color. This piece is named Earth D(ec)ay because it was made in December in preparation for Earth Day in 2020.