✨ artist (r21 x Lakers & Major League Soccer) ✍️ writer of thisbodyisbeta.substack.com 🤍 longevity biotech fellow 💫 SheFi 14 Scholar
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GM I’m Swickie! And all of my work centers on preservation: of art, cultural memory, & the human body. 😳 I’m a writer and longevity biotech fellow exploring the science of aging, & what it reveals about time, memory, meaning, & you. I’m launching a new writing series focused on the top innovators in biotech soon & I’d love to have you along for the wild ride. In addition, I’m in grant review for an ovarian aging research project: aggregating & modeling public health data for clinics, research & an accessible tool for underserved women. Art side: 2x featured R21 artist with the Lakers (their first AR apparel) & upcoming collabs with an American sports league & top film festival. As creative director of a stealth platform, I help connect fans & fandoms to the moments that made them, before they disappear. If you’re into biotech, art & culture, or the emotional architecture of the blockchain, I’m quite literally working on how we’re going to be friends, in this timeline, FOREVER 😈🤍
🌺 August Nails 💅
This guy staring through my soul. Landed on my balcony and stayed with me for about an hour
Two main reasons I decided to lean into my longevity & biotech hyper fixation (beyond being obsessed with mortality & consciousness since childhood)? 1. Found out about my biological family in 2019 through 23andMe 🤣 Was raised thinking a parent was real parent til that point. 2. In 2024 they discover I have a heart condition by accident. Passed from Dr to Dr & gaslit. Said I was fine. But I was literally dying. Only one listened. I worsened 11% in 6 months. By surgery day, I was 3% over the threshold as life-threatening. I believe everybody has the right to know & understand their health & their options, no matter what their financial situation. I’m lucky to heave great health insurance. But if I had listened to the first round of doctors, I would be dead right now. That isn’t speculation, it’s what my surgeon told me. We all have a right to know, understand, treat & look forward to healing and preserving our bodies. Here’s a picture of my heart 🫀