Quarantine Self-Care Series
Soothing Pieces: Portrait of Billy

The Quarantine Self-Care Series is a multimedia project that highlights
the ways people of color are navigating the nuances of self-care, survival, and new normals as a result of COVID-19 via interview, installation, photos, and video.

BILLY DEAN THOMAS, aka“The Queer B.I.G”
is a Hip-hop recording artist and composer born and raised in Harlem, but currently residing in Boston.

When asked how they care for themselves, they responded: “I care for myself by lighting incense, taking showers that feel like baptisms, getting weekly pedicures and finding self soothing mechanisms to keep me at peace as much as possible.”