Xara Thustra and Monica Canilao have been collaborating as MCXT since 2017. Their work is united by a shared belief that art is inseparable from resistance, community, and sacred mythology. Xara Thustra has employed art and street actions to protest capitalism, militarism, displacement, misogyny, and homophobia while fighting for trans rights and the needs of the dispossessed. Monica Canilao’s practice has focussed on community, collaboration and connection, using craft and found materials in an effort to express authenticity and personal strength. In their collaborative work, Thustra and Canilao have made several extraordinary, large-scale murals concerning queer and trans experience. MCXT’s work embodies the radical-progressive values of the San Francisco Bay Area counterculture, and their artistic style and strategies place them firmly in the context of the San Francisco Mission School. Thustra’s and Canilao’s ethos, artwork, and actions are aligned with those of the most well-known Mission School artists (McGee, Killgallen, McCarthy, Johansen) yet, in part because of their radical, counter-cultural positions they have been somewhat elusive and left out of most histories of this movement.