Mushpa + Mensa’s Journey

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Happy Thanksgiving Mushpa + Mensa Super Fans! We hope this newsletter finds you well in these 2020 times.

You may know us from when we used to travel up and down the eastern seaboard in our art truck Maya, the Magical Mobile Art Machine (our small mobile, solar powered tiny boutique) advocating for local, conscious, women-owned small businesses all over the world, all the while spreading our art, messages, laughter and love!

Things have changed a bit from then, for better or for worse in September of 2018, our art truck Maya was flooded during the destructive Hurricane Florence via North Carolina. Our little Maya was under 5 feet of filthy water and debris. She no longer started and was covered in black mold. It was her end and yet another new beginning for Mushpa + Mensa.

Yes, it did break our hearts, but we are firm believers that everything happens for a reason.  

Honestly, we are so happy to have discover Maya hidden in a corner lot in Staten Island, to have been able to transform her inside and out with our very own hands into the beauty she became. We are grateful that she took us on such great adventures, thousands of miles worth since we began in 2014. She was there for many a grand moment in our lives, always helping us spread our message of love to the masses. For that we are blessed.

Mushpa + Mensa did not give up their travels. We went back to tents, just like the good old NYC days. We kept touring and even made it to the Central Time Zone!

We did that for a year and then in March of 2020 came “The Pandemic” aka Covid-19 and all shows were cancelled until further notice. It is now nine months later and Thanksgiving weekend and we are thankful that our loved business endeavor has survived through it all! Nine months later and Mushpa + Mensa’s rebirth is a transformation from the streets to an amazing online presence thanks to all the support from our loyal customers and all the new ones we have found on this journey in the New World.new ones we have found on this journey in the New World.

We truly hope you see we love what we are doing, making a living selling our art, and get inspired to create change in the world through your own blessings and devotion to what you love.   We, Cara and Maria-Emilia, send love to all and a wish that we all stay safe this holiday season. Chins up, the vaccine is just around the corner.  

-Mushpa + Mensa (Cara and Emilia)

Just A Few Laughs

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bowling, Cara Reynolds, Happiness, hedgehog, inspiration, laughs, laughter, lesbian, Maria Emilia Borja, Mensa, Mushpa, Mushpa + Mensa, Mushpa Y Mensa, Pepper vs Tuck, queer, The American Hedgehog Bowling Association, The American Hedgehog Bowling Association - Pepper vs Tuck

Hedgehog bowling and not in a bad way… Please it’s us.

So cute.

-Mushpa

Killing Eve…I’ve Got Issues

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Amadeus, AMC, BBC, Cara Reynolds, Elena Felton, Eve, Eve Polastri, Fiona Shaw, gay, issues, Jodie Comer, Killing Eve, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, lesbian, Mushpa + Mensa, Oksana Astankova, queer, Sandra Oh, serial killer, villanelle

You got hands like oceans.

-Mushpa

P.S. – BBC thank you for Killing Eve.

Sooooo good.

Day 3- Hold Me

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Be Steadwell, Brasil, Cara Reynolds, Hold Me, lesbian, Mushpa, Mushpa + Mensa, Red, Woman

Challenge yourself.

-Mushpa

Gay in 5 Minutes

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Chinese food, dating app, dog, Fortunate, fortune cookies, gay, lesbian, lesbian short film, Mushpa + Mensa, OML, One More Lesbian, queer, take out, Tristan True Giallani

You need a quick break?

Simple and sweet.

-Mushpa

We’re Off Again

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African, Alice Merton, and a Children's Universe tent, Appalachian, art, Art Market, artisan market, artisans, artist, arts, Arts & Live Music, arts and crafts, Awesome Event, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, bluegrass, Cajun, Cara Reynolds, Children's Universe tent, clay beads, clothes, compost, craft market, crafts, dance workshops, eco fi felt, eco-friendly, face painting, fashion, felt, Floyd, Floyd Festival, FloydFest, folk, freedom, Games and Activities, handcraft vendors, handmade, Happiness, healthy living products, homemade, jewlery, kids activities, lesbian, local, local arts and crafts, local craftsmen, love, Maria Emilia Borja, morning yoga lessons, Mushpa + Mensa, Mushpa Y Mensa, music festival, No Roots, North Carolina, or Zydeco, organic, organic cotton, peace, plush animals, poetry readings, queer, reggae, rock, screen printing, soaps, story telling, t shirt designs, t-shirts, upcycled pillows, Virginia, woodworking, world music, Yiddish, Yoga, Zydeco

Our home has never been on the ground.

We are off to the next adventure tomorrow.

We’ve got no roots!

– Mushpa

Mushpa’s Lesbian Chic Flick Preview Reviews

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Ah-ga-ssi, Aisling Walsh, Ana Maria Hermida, Andrés Aranburo, BBC Series, Beth Grant, Bradley Rust Gray, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Chan-wook Park, Cho Jin-woong, Elaine Cassidy, erotic psychological thriller, Fingersmith, gay, Ha Jung-woo, Heartland, homosexual, Jena Malone, Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri., La Luciérnaga, Laura Spencer, lesbian, lovesong, Manuel José Chaves, Maura Anderson, Olga Segura, PARK CHAN-WOOK, Riley Keough, Sally Hawkins, Sarah Waters, So Yong Kim, South Korean, Steve Agee |, The Firefly), The Handmaiden, Todd Waring, Velida Godfrey, Velinda Godfrey

I know you all have been waiting for my 2017 lesbian flick preview reviews to come out. Keep in mind they are not all from 2017, that is just when I reviewed said previews. It is 3AM on a Tuesday, raining, perfect.

I have not seen any of the actual movies yet as they are either not officially out or because I now live in an endearing little town in the South that does not have a place to watch said films. I should be the one to remedy this.

The first film is, La Luciérnaga (The Firefly) from 2013. A sister loses her brother and then falls in love with his widow.

Next is Ah-ga-ssi (The Handmaiden) a 2016 South Korean erotic psychological thriller. It’s based on one of my all time favorite BBC series, written by lesbian Sarah Waters, Fingersmith. Watch it first! This should be breathtaking.

Next is Lovesong. No regrets. 2016 release. May not be a full fledged lesbo flick, but you know…. :]

Last, but not least, Heartland – 2016. Death, The South, lesbians, and love, I can’t wait.

Movies are art. Art is life. Life is connecting.

Love to all,

Mushpa

Last Minute Women’s March Sign Ideas

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If you are anything like us, we can get real close to the time of whatever-it-may-be and then get what needs to be done, last minute style, done. Don’t get us wrong, we do it well under pressure. The Women’s March tomorrow is no different. We are going to wake up around 7AM to get our signs done to get out to our local Wilmington, NC Women’s March. I did some image research and quote digging and came up with 10 good sign suggestions off the World Wide Web.

1. We go high.
2. Your silence will not protect you.
3. Nasty Woman
4. “Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities” Voltaire
5. Hate Kills
6. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” Audre Lorde
7. Woman’s place is in the resistance. (in reference to Carrie Fisher…Princess Leigh….Star Wars. You get it.)
8. I am stronger than fear.
9. Truth matters.
10. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”  Alice Walker

Get your recycled pieces of boxes, cardboard, old sheets and get to creating. We will collectively be with every human at every women’s march tomorrow. We love you.

Love trumps hate. Be brave.

Cara and Maria Emilia

The Hunger

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1983, Cara Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, gay, lesbian, London, Manhattan, NYC, queer, Susan Sarandon, The Hunger, Tony Scott, vampire, Willem Dafoe

The trailer from 1983 of The Hunger is so 1983. Find and watch it. It is so worth it, the 80’s NY glam and class with a dash of London vampire queer action. Cast includes Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon and David Bowie. R.I.P.  Also, the 2nd kid at the phone booth is Willem Dafoe. Nice. Filmed in London and Manhattan. Directed by Tony Scott. R.I.P. 

A cult classic.

— Mushpa

Going There

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Back in your Head, Dark Come Soon, Ecuador, Emo, lesbian, lesbian drama, Living Room, Northshore, ocean, tegan and sara

Follow the mood. :]

Emo out.

– La Mushpa a.k.a. Cara