Tuff Peach

She/Her

TENDER X SWEET X TUFF
disabled & queer 🌈
daydreamer & abolitionist 🇵🇸
mistress of glass & light ✨
WASHOE/PAIUTE LAND

08/17/2026

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

When I saw this branch — broken and swaying — weeks ago, I was hit with a deep sadness for this lil tree. It was very apparent the break was due to a human trying to hang from her branches. I sit in her shade with people I love and also alone quite often — I’m ever grateful for her care for us, and in awe of her resilience in the face of loss, especially when traumatic and sudden. I love her and all of her friends. Trees are breathing happiness embodied in bark and limbs and leaves and shade and the laughter that floats out from underneath their canopies. 🤍🌳

Thank a tree today, tomorrow, forever. 🤟🏼 And maybe, perhaps especially, be gentle with them and teach gentleness for them to those around you, too.

07/27/2026

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” — Communion, bell hooks

This quote has been an integral part of who I am at this stage in life, how I think about grief, and how I view other human beings. There really is a weighted feeling to being a human — a creature with bones, with complex thoughts, feelings and core beliefs. I’ve come to know, just via simple observation and personal experience, that the heart, a soul, does not heal when the entire weight of existence alone rests upon its shoulders. The purpose of being here on this Earth together, is to carry the weight for others, and to equally have your own weight lifted sometimes, too. Not all of it and not forever, but with grace and patience. Restoration of the soul begins and ends with human connection and support. Love your friends viciously and without apology. We all have community roles and no two look alike but it is each and every one of our responsibilities to be gentle with each other at the very absolute least.

I love you — every perfection and every “flaw”.
👯‍♀️👯‍♂️👯

06/16/2026

My first cyanotype. 💙

I will admit that I thought this medium would be a more accessible art form for me, however; I am facing the reality that most things are just not accessible to me anymore — there is a growing list of things that are either impossible or require a great deal of pain and suffering to accomplish. Just this single print absolutely took it out of me and I was fighting through every second just to make it to the end. 😮‍💨

Any bit of art that exists on this Earth is a miracle but it is especially miraculous when disabled and chronically ill people create art. The process alone is healing for body and mind and the outcome is never the same but always rewarding to bear witness to and humbling to share with those who care enough to give pause for something made with my very own trembling and weak hands.

The complications of dying are endless, it seems. ft response from Tuff Dad. 🤟🏼

I love you, thank you for being here!

06/03/2026

𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕥 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕤 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕀’𝕞 𝕗𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕔𝕖𝕒𝕟 🌊

Model: .luvscarrr 🫶🏼
Dev lab: 🎞️
Captured with/on: Minolta X-7A, Kodak Portra 800
Photography, editing, direction: me 🪩

06/02/2026

Did you know Kooyooe Pa’a Panunadu is all that remains of the ancient inland sea known as Lake Lahontan (not that one…that’s a reservoir)? The vast sea covered a large majority of Nevada/the Great Basin, as well as some parts of Northeastern California and Oregon. 🌊

This is strictly a Kooyooe Pa’a fan page. 🫶🏼

Model: .luvscarrr 🕯️
Dev lab: 🎞️
Captured with/on: Nikon F6, Kodak Portra 400 📷
Photography, direction, editing: moi 🍑

06/01/2026

Happy “when is heterosexual pride month?” to all my fellow q***rs!!! 🌈🫵🏼🫶🏼

I love you, thank you for being on this Earth. 🌎🌍🌏

05/30/2026

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I came across these balloons that were most certainly made specifically for .luvscarrr 🖤

Black heart flail balloons ✅
Tuffa-made backdrop ✅
Parfait prom dress ✅
Alligator skull for her love of Louisiana ✅
Nails to match ✅
The most perfect lil model ✅

Model: The people’s Princess, .luvscarrr 👑
Dev lab: 🎞️
Captured with/on: Nikon F6, Kodak Portra 400 📸

05/29/2026

We’re all animals, after all. 🦌

A lil nod to the grads of 2026, getting an education is damn hard!

Model: the best, the cutest, the greatest .luvscarrr 👩‍🎓
Dev lab: 🎞️
Captured with/on: The delightful and ever reliable Nikon F6, Kodak Portra 400 📸
Everything here, there and in between: me 🍑

05/28/2026

These photos stole my breath, I love capturing emotion and relationships and the unique ways they are different from others because each one has its own fingerprint, no two are alike. Thank you to anyone who has ever let me immortalize them in pixel. I am ever lucky to be trusted in such a way. Memories are precious, to freeze them in their tracks in a way that you can come back to years and years on, is a very special community role that I will always be grateful to hold.

I will admit it was tough looking through my viewfinder at this beautiful sight, as a child without a momma on this Earth. It was also incredibly special — witnessing a mother’s love for her children has always healed pieces of my inner child that couldn’t understand why her own mother didn’t like her. Now life is about bearing witness to these moments and continuing to heal the parts of me that were abandoned over and over again until I couldn’t be abandoned anymore.

I am ever grateful to the magic of collecting light and translating it into something we can hold forever, a brief moment in time that always slips away so swiftly — we blink and they’re gone. I am also ever grateful to my own momma for being the match that ignited my love for photography and light at an incredibly young age and continued to fuel that fire as I grew up. I was a photographer before I even knew how to be a human. 📸

Thank you for reading and especially for being patient with me during this time of grief as I process in the most accessible to me way; photography. This page started out as a dedicated space for me to share my photography and the purpose of this Instagram has only expanded to now include many other mediums that bring me ease in this life, but none such as the capturing of light and the click of the shutter. 🫶🏼

Models: .fae.oddities & her mini .luvscarrr 🤍
Captured with/on: Nikon F6, Kodak Porta 400 📷
Dev lab: 🎞️
Photography, editing, direction, everything in between: moi 🍑

05/27/2026

This song reminds me of my appreciation for my mother — for the lungs, heart, soul, and brain that she created in her belly. And it also reminds me of my friends, of the water in the rivers and lakes that nourish my body, of the mountains and the sunshine, of the moon, of dogs, of creatives that use their very own hands to breathe things to life, and my own body that very literally carries me from day to day.

Here’s some things as of late:

1. THE view. The only one that matters.
2. THE view pt II.
3. The locksmith hands that I love.
4. The nonbinary hands that I love.
5. Water that flows from the snowcapped mountains and out of my faucet.
6. Old friends and new, Kristi and Ari.
7. Matching feets, Penny feets.
8. The light dancing on water in a way my brain still can’t fathom.
9. Alysh, my dear.
10. Momma’s memorial ring featuring Truckee River jasper, returned for a brief time to the waters of her birth.

Ft.
Kooyooe Pa’a Panunadu (Pyramid Lake)
My honey 🍯
// 🫶🏼
& co 🤟🏼
🤍

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