This mural tells the origin story of the Survivor Love Letter project, founded by Tani Ikeda, as painted by O+ artists Jess X. Snow and Layqa Nuna Yawar. Ikeda wrote a love letter to her younger self on the anniversary of her sexual assault: “Dear Survivor: to love yourself is to become free.” The mural features a double portrait of Ikeda comforting her younger self along with her words and those of Kingston-area survivors of sexual violence who participated in a facilitated workshop. Floating lily pads, flowering St. John’s Wort and monarch butterflies remind us that, like nature, we can transform and heal from trauma by loving and tending ourselves. It is the first of many monumental murals that celebrates queer and trans survivors of color around the country.