Art is not a threat. Unless you're lying.

They say art should stay out of politics. That DEI is a "luxury belief." That caring for the disabled, the sick, the marginalised is a risk to social cohesion. We call it survival. And we’re not going anywhere.

We’re not aligned to any political party. But we know what betrayal looks like. We saw it when promises were broken. We felt it when slogans replaced solidarity. We live it every day in systems not designed for us.

Art of FACELESS began as an experiment in masked identity, speculative fiction, uncomfortable, challenging photography and glitch-poetry. But it’s also a response: to being watched, silenced, dismissed. To being told "now is not the time."

We're told “social conservatism” (an oxymoron) is the new normal. But what are they trying to conserve? A world where people like us don’t belong? That’s not social.

That’s

control.

So no — we won't “tone it down.” We won’t apologise for existing at the margins. Our poetry is political because our lives are politicised. Our fiction is social commentary because their fiction is propaganda.

This isn’t about wokeness. It’s about truth.

And truth, inconvenient as it is, always finds a way through.