My Manifesto
Blueprint for a Better World
🕊️ We believe in human rights — for every body, every soul.
We believe LGBTQIA+ individuals deserve full autonomy and dignity.
We believe women have the right to choose what’s best for their bodies and their lives.
We believe everyone deserves a livable wage, access to nourishing food, and freedom from persecution.
We believe Black lives matter.
We believe bodily autonomy is non-negotiable.
We believe equity is not charity — it’s justice.
We believe in basic human dignity — for all people:
The right to love and live without persecution.
The right to decide what happens to one’s own body.
The right to safe, affordable housing — where rent doesn’t consume your life.*
The right to food that nourishes, not poisons.
The right to read and think freely — including children.
The right to thrive, not just survive.
We believe books should be read, not banned.
We believe truth and freedom are best friends, not adversaries.
We believe no one is free until we are all free.
🌀We believe the Earth is not a resource — it is our relative.
We honor the teachings of Indigenous communities, whose wisdom long predated the destruction brought by greed.
We’re returning to the teachings of the Earth Keepers, the Root Dwellers, the Sky Watchers — the Indigenous peoples of this world who honored land, water, rhythm, and spirit.
We see now what was lost in the rush to own and conquer.
And seeing that, we cannot look away.
Acknowledgment is not enough.
We believe in reparative action, in land back movements, in listening to the wisdom still alive among Indigenous communities.
We believe in honoring the cultures we once tried to erase.
We’re learning — too late for many — that the people we once silenced held the answers all along.
We believe reparations aren’t radical — they’re overdue.
🌾 We believe true wealth is rooted.
We live in a world that teaches us to invest in things we don’t understand — faceless corporations, abstract markets, fleeting trends.
But we remember what matters.
We believe in investing in ourselves — our wisdom, our health, our creativity.
We believe in investing in our homes — not as status symbols, but as sanctuaries.
We believe in investing in our neighborhoods — the people whose names we know, whose children grow beside our own.
We believe in nourishing the soil we walk on — and the soul we carry within.
We also believe that we — the quiet ones — must begin quietly organizing.
To create systems of care, mutual support, and resilience that cannot be silenced or sold.
Through our choices, our care, our everyday acts of kindness,
we quietly build a world where hatred cannot thrive.
Where justice grows at kitchen tables, text threads, front porches, and food co-ops.
Where we hold each other — and the line.
Profit that does not serve people, is poverty in disguise.
Community is the original wealth.
🪞 I believe in the radical act of living authentically.
We reject a system that rewards disconnection and exploitation.
Instead, we work to create value that uplifts, sustains, and heals — especially for the least protected among us.
In a world that profits from our conformity and insecurity, I choose to create beauty with integrity.
I refuse to be a product.
I am not a brand.
I am a soul — evolving.
We believe we are not here to hoard or hustle — but to design lives that leave behind soulprints, not just legacies.*
We believe design is a tool for liberation.
Not just for dressing ourselves, but for expressing ourselves.
Not just for beautifying space, but for reclaiming it.
We believe in ethical beauty.
In aesthetics that nourish. In sustainability without shame.
In wardrobes that liberate, not constrain.
In homes that hold space for the lives we’re designing, not just the ones we’re surviving.
Because we know:
Until the most vulnerable person on this planet is safe, nourished, and free — none of us truly are.
φ We believe design can heal.
We use design — on wardrobes, on spaces, on systems — as a sacred language to restore joy, purpose, and connection.
We believe we can build a life — and a world — designed with intention.
This manifesto may evolve — but these values are non-negotiable.
This is not a brand. This is a calling.
🌱
I am not here for applause. I am here for alignment.
And if you’re here for that too — welcome.
~ Mariya Lilith
* No one should have to spend more than one out of every four paychecks on a basic need like shelter.
*“Soulprints”: the lasting impressions we leave behind — not of what we owned, but of who we were, what we believed, and how we loved.
My Manifesto
Blueprint for a Better World
🜁
🕊️ We believe in human rights — for every body, every soul.
We believe LGBTQIA+ individuals deserve full autonomy and dignity.
We believe women have the right to choose what’s best for their bodies and their lives.
We believe everyone deserves a livable wage, access to nourishing food, and freedom from persecution.
We believe Black lives matter.
We believe bodily autonomy is non-negotiable.
We believe equity is not charity — it’s justice.
We believe in basic human dignity — for all people:
The right to love and live without persecution.
The right to decide what happens to one’s own body.
The right to safe, affordable housing — where rent doesn’t consume your life.*
The right to food that nourishes, not poisons.
The right to read and think freely — including children.
The right to thrive, not just survive.
We believe books should be read, not banned.
We believe truth and freedom are best friends, not adversaries.
We believe no one is free until we are all free.
🌀We believe the Earth is not a resource — it is our relative.
We honor the teachings of Indigenous communities, whose wisdom long predated the destruction brought by greed.
We’re returning to the teachings of the Earth Keepers, the Root Dwellers, the Sky Watchers — the Indigenous peoples of this world who honored land, water, rhythm, and spirit.
We see now what was lost in the rush to own and conquer.
And seeing that, we cannot look away.
Acknowledgment is not enough.
We believe in reparative action, in land back movements, in listening to the wisdom still alive among Indigenous communities.
We believe in honoring the cultures we once tried to erase.
We’re learning — too late for many — that the people we once silenced held the answers all along.
We believe reparations aren’t radical — they’re overdue.
🌾 We believe true wealth is rooted.
We live in a world that teaches us to invest in things we don’t understand — faceless corporations, abstract markets, fleeting trends.
But we remember what matters.
We believe in investing in ourselves — our wisdom, our health, our creativity.
We believe in investing in our homes — not as status symbols, but as sanctuaries.
We believe in investing in our neighborhoods — the people whose names we know, whose children grow beside our own.
We believe in nourishing the soil we walk on — and the soul we carry within.
We also believe that we — the quiet ones — must begin quietly organizing.
To create systems of care, mutual support, and resilience that cannot be silenced or sold.
Through our choices, our care, our everyday acts of kindness,
we quietly build a world where hatred cannot thrive.
Where justice grows at kitchen tables, text threads, front porches, and food co-ops.
Where we hold each other — and the line.
Profit that does not serve people, is poverty in disguise.
Community is the original wealth.
🪞 I believe in the radical act of living authentically.
We reject a system that rewards disconnection and exploitation.
Instead, we work to create value that uplifts, sustains, and heals — especially for the least protected among us.
In a world that profits from our conformity and insecurity, I choose to create beauty with integrity.
I refuse to be a product.
I am not a brand.
I am a soul — evolving.
We believe we are not here to hoard or hustle — but to design lives that leave behind soulprints, not just legacies.*
We believe design is a tool for liberation.
Not just for dressing ourselves, but for expressing ourselves.
Not just for beautifying space, but for reclaiming it.
We believe in ethical beauty.
In aesthetics that nourish. In sustainability without shame.
In wardrobes that liberate, not constrain.
In homes that hold space for the lives we’re designing, not just the ones we’re surviving.
Because we know:
Until the most vulnerable person on this planet is safe, nourished, and free — none of us truly are.
φ We believe design can heal.
We use design — on wardrobes, on spaces, on systems — as a sacred language to restore joy, purpose, and connection.
We believe we can build a life — and a world — designed with intention.
This manifesto may evolve — but these values are non-negotiable.
This is not a brand. This is a calling.
🌱
I am not here for applause. I am here for alignment.
And if you’re here for that too — welcome.
~ Mariya Lilith
🜁
* No one should have to spend more than one out of every four paychecks on a basic need like shelter.
*“Soulprints”: the lasting impressions we leave behind — not of what we owned, but of who we were, what we believed, and how we loved.