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WRITER 🎨 DESIGNER✨ COMMUNION🌍 WONDER 💿 PLAY🌈 DREAMING ✨DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱

I'M ANNIKA

HANSTEEN-IZORA

I'm a writer and designer that creates worlds rooted in play, tenderness and communion

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Explore my classes and gatherings for creativity & softness

My experimental school and studio School of Softness studies tenderness, imagination, and play, both online and Brooklyn

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I  write about making a life that feels more alive with wonder, creativity, and communion

Entering my goo era

On the necessity of beauty

What happens when we let ourselves be bad at something

Ode to the errand friend hang

Time is Water

Design for community and expression

LEX

LEX

SOMEWHERE GOOD

SOMEWHERE GOOD

ETHEL'S CLUB

ETHEL'S CLUB

FORM NO FORM

FORM NO FORM

CREATIVE ECOSYSTEMS

CREATIVE ECOSYSTEMS

BLACK FEAST

BLACK FEAST

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THE CREATIVE INDEPENDENT

THE CREATIVE INDEPENDENT

Annika Hansteen-Izora on joy, communal care, and designing liberatory futures

STUDIO ĀNANDA

STUDIO ĀNANDA

Dreaming Into Action with Annika Hansteen-Izora

GOSSAMER

GOSSAMER

The creative director on Black internet culture, queer design, and the commodification of self-care.

EXPLORE SCHOOL OF SOFTNESS

TENDERNESS: A BLACK QUEER MEDITATION ON SOFTNESS AND RAGE

Read my book on tenderness

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