Lia D Castro's artistic practice offers an approach to art that goes beyond her own paintings, texts, and installations. It encompasses the complexity of society, and seeks to build more meaningful and inclusive narratives and lived experiences that have not previously been represented in museums and galleries. Her paintings act as a mirror, implicating the viewer as witnesses in the stories they tell of a series of relationships; related to race and visibility; identity and community; and capitalist structures that value profits more than human lives. Since 2014, Lia D Castro has worked as educator, transgender rights activist and gives anti-racism and anti-transphobia lectures in art institutions, as well as in national and multinational companies. She also has interests in areas such as hate criminology, anthropology, behavioural psychology, and sociology. Castro’s ongoing project Your children also practice it uses sex work and literature as investigative and educational tools, developing a profound relationship with her clients, generally young men under 25 years, who are white, affluent, and self- identify as straight. During these encounters she invites them to read from her personal library and to engage in dialogue, seeking to enlighten these young men on critical topics such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.