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DeviantArt spoke with Trap Heals, the creative agency for Black Lives Matter, to get insight on how art can echo the movement for social change. Read on to learn more! Trap Heals, the creative agency for the Black Lives Matter organization, sat down with DeviantArt to talk about the political and cultural events of 2020, how art can shape movements, and more. This journal is the first of a series, and features their answer to the following question: DeviantArt is the largest art community in the world. In talking directly to such a community, what would you want to see more (or less) of from artists that would help to echo the voice of BLM? Since the advent of the American capitalist system, chiefly built on the backs of enslaved Africans, Black identity has always been, and until a new social system is created that prioritizes equity, always will be political. Founded on a racist operating system, America has built industry created to preserve profits for the white business class