This work by Syrus Marcus Ware is part of a series of large-scale graphite portraits of revolutionaries and community mobilizers, commemorating activist culture as an act of reverence, defiance, and love. Ware explored the Trans Archives at the University of Victoria and historic archives on Salt Spring Island, “digging for and finding Black history in the pages and fields.” Depicted here is QueenTite Opaleke, a Toronto-based multidisciplinary queer artist and activist with Black Lives Matter. In his own activism, Ware works to ensure that Black, Indigenous, racialized Queer and Trans people, and people living with disabilities are given safe and creative spaces. Ware’s art has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of York University.