fern di rossi-bird

human, builder, artist, poet,
certified expressive arts therapist, grief worker, & reclaiming Tessitore Magico

I am a white settler of Italian and Ukrainian ancestry that occupies the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, who have held a reciprocal relationship with the land, water, and animals for a very, very, very long time.

I’m a mulitply neurodivergent, chronically ill, queer, nonbinary, and reclaiming Italian folk Tessitore Magico that enjoys working with and for the community. Art-making has been my primary source of expression and healing since I was a child. I feel the most ~connected when I’m doodling, making idea webs, going for walks in the forest, building things, problem solving creatively, laughing til my sides ache with my partner, cooking for and/with others, being an auntie, collecting things, story-sharing, participating in ritual(s).

current special interest(s):
Orville Peck
nests
Our Flag Means Death
objects as symbols

Image Description: close up picture of Fern, a white non-binary human, they wear large brown tortoiseshell cat-framed glasses, they have hazel eyes, freckles on their face, a gold septum ring, a silver hoop on their right nostril, they have a beauty. mark on their upper right lip and a slight moustache, they wear purple/pink/yellow beaded fringe earrings, they have short brown hair and are wearing a blue and white gingham blouse with a burgundy velvet tank top over top, subtle cleavage is visible and shows the hint of a rose tattoo on their chest. The image has thick red pastel scribbles around it, the background is dark purple-blue distorted eyes against a light pink background.