Comfy Euro hippie
This is Mykki Blanco and you are inside my flat
in Lisbon, Portugal
This is actually my place
This is our place, though
I literally did not have a home for, like, four years
just living out of hotels and Airbnbs on the road
Once you start to actually live in a place,
it's nice, like, you can collect little things, you know what I mean,
things that you normally would be
"Why do I have a need for a vintage chocolate box?"
All settling in your home, and you're like
"I just love looking at my vintage chocolate box"
Plants, that's, like, my meditative happy thing
caring for plants
This is Patinga, she's my first cat and my first pet
I never thought that I was an animal person
and it turns out I just have so much love to give
So that is my little love shrine
It's two corsets that I've nailed on the wall
It is just dried flowers and crystals
and there's a sex toy up there, and an air plant
I love tapestries
As a queer person of color, I have experienced in my life
coming to America, a lot of discrimination
racism, homophobia, transphobia
There comes a point in your adult life when you don't have to take it anymore
There are so many more layers to yourself
when you have the quiet time to discover them, you know
And I think that's what living in Lisbon is doing and continues to do for me
My boyfriend gave me this
He knows that I would prefer something like this to a cologne
you know what I mean, that kind of thing
Can't you see me?
["Fofinha!"]
I always wanted to have a family life, a home life
and now that that's manifesting I'm not going to let that go
This book actually I got randomly in Azores
This Dutchman, Uwe Ommer
he traveled for two years shooting a thousand families
It's just really crazy, seeing all these families
and all these cultures around the world
all of these commonalities
I don't know, it also just kind of opens your mind
about possibilities and ideas, like what is family
I just like writing, writing, writing, more writing
"Use your personal power
You are a creator
You have control of the events that manifest in your life"
I have a lemon tree that, honestly, has seen better days
And then we have this side, more experiments
and bowls and plants
Like I said, I'm a new green thumb. I'll figure it out
This is my HIV medicine
These are matcha whisks
and they should be in the kitchen
but I drink so much matcha here that they're here
Matcha, matcha, matcha
"Only give attention and power to the multiple outcomes
and manifestations that serve the light-filled desires of your life
and rest and believe in a heart-centered faith
that like energy is responding to and attracting like energy"
Matcha, matcha
I have been really happy in my life lately
I just want to keep living here
This is, like, my happy place
This plant was illegally taken in the night
My boyfriend is like,
"Oh, my God! You're just like a Portuguese mom"