Odera Igbokwe

Odera Igbokwe

@odera.bsky.social

🧚🏿‍♂️ Painter / Illustrator / Movement Artist 🌻 Summer sketchbook sale 🎨 www.odera.net/shop/sketchbook 🌞 patreon.com/Odera Some posts are NSFW / queer & embodied / get me bodied/

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Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

Happy #portfolioday! I am painter, illustrator, and movement artist whose artwork explores Afrodiasporic spiritualism and Queer embodiment. The work weaves in and out of the gallery world, book covers, and my ongoing divination tarot deck. Let's connect! 🤸🏿 👩🏿‍🎨 www.odera.net 🌻 odera@odera.net

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

the astroweather is saying infuse yourself with your venusian life force and energy. venus is reemerging from a retrograde!!! find a sanctum!!! take yourself on an artist date!!! meanwhile i was cleaning up my harddrive and thought, OH I NEED BRAIDS AGAIN ACTUALLY.

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

Two inari and a free cup of miso soup for about $8. One of the cheapest things i can eat in this neighborhood 🌝 And then you go to Japan once and suddenly you are reminiscing on all the things you could get for 800 yen 😤

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

Wow a beautiful timelapse glimpse of the back of my head and beautiful coils. I am resistant to process and content creation, i just want to paint and dance. But I am trying to find the balance and momentum to 2026

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

On IG posting new art with lots of intentionality, well photographed using my xt3: 50-100 views to stories. 40-200 likes. On IG posting an impromptu as video story wearing fake bangs and dancing shirtless to gay music: 500 views. Dozens of replies. 100 likes. 🫩 it’s comical at this point 😵‍💫

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

I will absolutely be posting new art AND reposting art from the archives specifically with my name. Because if I search Odera on here and consistently see an OC getting her hole tickled??? Babyyyyy, save some of that search space for meeeee. My paintings need to get a little wet tooooo 😂

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

And no shade, but Odera is such an Igbo name. A very African name that is also a family name, and I have seen amongst Kenyans as well. So if youre OC is a tan ginger who is nutting, but has nothing to do with Kola nut???? Then I will need to take up some more space 🥴

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Will
@fullmetalhimbo.bsky.social

when im on the open world map and i missed raising supports, stupid bird time, missed exclusive cutscenes, and have 3 gold

Odera Igbokwe
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I can’t believe this illustration is 11 years old….and yet when I think back to where i physically was as I made this? It absolutely feels that long ago

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Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

A single drop from the ocean, the ocean within a single drop. Orie ● 1 (Otu) is a new painting from the second elemental suits of Odera Igbokwe’s Spirit Child divination deck

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

Just had a memory unlocked that I was absolutely banned from the BoAjjang forums in the mid 2000s for being too critical of certain albums and posting too much spam in the spam section. And of course it was revealed the mods were calling me and a few others anti-Black slurs in their irc chat lol

Edgar Allan Hoe@dlcrumbdump.bsky.social

people used to literally exclude you from entire fandom spaces because they personally didn't like you and had power as mods/admins

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

Miss Tuna and some of my artwork in the wild for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival Full piece features the top half illustrated by the one and only Tolu Ayoka

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Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

I’m remembering how an art teacher was frustrated by my work because the figures weren’t “idealized” enough “The hands are bit too big for that woman’s body” “Let’s soften the bone structure” I immediately knew this was not a critique I would internalize. Because that’s where the JUICE was.

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

Random yt men on my feed trying to protect their friend bc I publicly called him out. And now this guy is simply parroting the tenants of white supremacist respectability and fear tactics “They could sue you” “It could limit damages if they sue…” “If youre afraid for your safety go to the police”

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

I’m remembering how an art teacher was frustrated by my work because the figures weren’t “idealized” enough “The hands are bit too big for that woman’s body” “Let’s soften the bone structure” I immediately knew this was not a critique I would internalize. Because that’s where the JUICE was.

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

For example, moments like this hand or the way the figuration plays with the tension of realism versus the spirit and feeling of the figure are a major part of what make my paintings dance and reflective of my queer nonbinary center

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

I will be a little petty to say, in the past few days I have gotten repeated listification alerts of that user blocking me, following again, blocking again, and just now another moment of them blocking me. During this most recent block I was doing a Get Me Bodied (Extended mix) dance break...😂

Odera Igbokwe@odera.bsky.social

There was more to this thread (previous post deleted cos of typos) but like clockwork they are continuously texting, cursing me out, and threatening me. So yeah you all be safe out there with any interactions with gaybitterskeets. This is an unhinged, yt narcissist, who seems unstable and unsafe.

Odera Igbokwe
@odera.bsky.social

This painting was originallly prompted by virtue signaling & performative compliments from yt ppl desperate to interact with Black femmes. But with recent behaviors and encounters, I think it extends into the concept of being put on a pedestal which is just a shinier form of objectification