RA AVIS

ARTIST, ARCHIVIST, HELPER

Braiding revolutions & building achingly human neighborhoods.

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• Rarasaur Blog
• Behind The Dinosaur Shop
• Biggest Little Zine Fair
• Kites Library
• Cheer Peppers
• Helpers Zine
• Gnome Home LB (RETIRED)

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Ra Avis (she/her) is a memoirist, artist, facilitator, and community archivist. As a formerly incarcerated, autistic, Desi-Chicana writer, her work navigates the intersections of grief, disability, incarceration, and collective care. She is the award-winning blogger behind Rarasaur.com and the author of Dinosaur-Hearted and Flowers & Stars. In 2025, she was awarded the Writing Freedom Fellowship.Avis’s storytelling blends personal vulnerability with systemic critique, centering the achingly human stretch toward something more than survival. Beyond her published work, she is an active speaker across Long Beach, California, and leads multiple projects that bridge digital and analog communities. She is the founder of Kites Library, an incarceration-centered zine archive preserving system-impacted resource sharing, and the co-founding organizer of the Biggest Little Zine Fair. Her visual artwork has been featured at the Museum of Latin American Art, The Other Art Fair, and is often donated to charitable abolitionist events across Southern California.