VIVA RUIZ is the queer Latinx progeny of Ecuadorian immigrants and a community and nightlife educated advocate and artist from and based in New York City. The underlying thrust of all mediums is to dismantle white supremacy and exorcise the colonial / colonized mindset. Highlights include programming sex education and practical spirituality workshops as an invited curator for the New Museum’s "Scamming the Patriarchy" youth event and "ProAbortion Shakira: A Thank God For Abortion Introspective" a 5 week solo show at Participant Inc showing collected works and hosting conversations within the multimedia abortion destigmatization experiment THANK GOD FOR ABORTION.