Food · STEAM · Joy · South Seattle
An invitation for communities of color to reclaim child-like imagination — as an act of sustenance and a form of care.
Make Today A Good Day is rooted in south Seattle and guided by two organizing traditions: the 1964 Freedom Summer curriculum — which placed Black self-determination at the center of education — and a Beyoncé organizing ethos that centers Black joy, abundance, and intergenerational power as acts of political imagination.
We work at the intersection of food justice and STEAM education because nourishment and knowledge are inseparable. When young people of color have access to both, they build worlds.
Food justice and STEAM education are not separate projects — they are one vision of a world where youth of color have everything they need to build with.
Direct food access for youth and families in south Seattle. Culturally relevant, community-rooted, dignity-centered.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math guided by the 1964 Freedom Summer curriculum — Black self-determination alongside literacy.
Mixed media workshops and visual arts that center the child's imagination as a site of power. Joy is the methodology.
Organizing and leadership rooted in Afrofuturist and Indigenous frameworks — building the next generation of stewards.
These eight principles guide how we organize, how we gather, and how we pass the work forward.
Organizing begins in remembrance; your lineage is your compass.
Every gathering is ceremony; culture is built through repetition.
Collective shine is an act of defiance — dance floors are political.
Power flows in circles; lift as you climb and climb as you lift.
Rewrite the narrative from the source; the story belongs to the people.
The wound transforms; struggle is alchemy, not just survival.
Communal memory is sacred; bear witness to one another's truth.
Lead for those not yet born; hand the work forward with intention.
We hold this question as a practice — not naive optimism, but a trained imagination. Freedom Summer taught it. Beyoncé built it into every album. We pass it to every young person we work with.
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Natasha Cox is a Black and Indigenous mixed media artist based and rooted in Seattle. She is a member of the Inner Salish — Spokane Tribe. Her practice nurtures the inner child through creativity, most notably through the Make Today A Good Day design.
Make Today A Good Day serves as an invitation — for communities of color to consider ways we might engage child-like imagination and possibility to find moments of joy and connection, especially while navigating mental health challenges, as a form of sustenance.
Natasha's work sits at the intersection of organizing and art-making. Her visual practice is inseparable from her politics: layered, colorful, textured, and alive with the memory of everything that made her.
There are many ways to show up. Bring your gifts. Bring your questions. Bring your children. The work is already here.
Bring your skills to food distribution, workshops, and youth programming in south Seattle.
Schools, orgs, community spaces — let's build together. We're always looking for rooted collaborators.
Financial contributions and in-kind donations directly fund the work. Nothing is wasted.
Come to a gathering. Bring a young person. That presence matters more than you know.