Candace Avalos
@candaceavalos
Blacktina 🇬🇹 organizer at heart, Councilor by choice. 🩷 Fighting for justice, joy, and a future we deserve. ✊🏾 East Portland District 1. Personal page for big thoughts and bigger dreams. 🫶🏾 👉🏾Follow @counciloravalos.bsky.social for official city biz
Me winning not one but two kickball MVP awards today 💅🏾 (one is from today and one from a game last month) Damn I'm on a roll this season lmao 🤏🏾🤏🏾🤏🏾
my bestie Jay started this cat walk and it really is as magical as it seems: walk around a cute neighborhood to greet and pet celebrity cats! 😻 Happy Birthday Jay!
The 2nd annual D1 People's Picnic was a hit! Doubled our attendance from last year, crowned our Honorable East Portlander Don from the new Parkrose Grocery Store that my office has been helping with, and everyone was having so much fun!!! 😊 I really needed this to remind me what I'm fighting for 🫶🏾
The police union's attempt to divert 25% of the Portland Clean Energy Fund to more policing has officially failed to qualify for the ballot. 🥳 This fight might be over, but the lesson isn't: good ideas don't need confusion to win. Nice try PPA, Portland voters are too smart for that! Onward. ✊🏾✌🏾
After 6 months of displacement after the fire and 3 months of rebuilding my house back into a home, I had my re-housewarming party today with all my friends and community who helped me overcome the hardest event of my life 🙏🏾 Now, Valentino and I are gonna enjoy our casita for the summer 🌞🥹🥰
I cannot wait for this Argentina and Cabo Verde game!!!! I'm gonna take out my braids while I watch it, so say goodbye to redhead Blacktina! 🤭
There's a new Avalos in City Hall: Grandma Avalos! 🥰🩷🤭 I know Grandpa was looking down on us smiling! 🥹 Every sacrifice they made led to this moment. Today, their granddaughter gets to serve Portland, fighting for the kind of community they dreamed was possible when they immigrated here! 🇬🇹❤️💙🇺🇸
oooo just wait until you see this porch makeover Grandma and I are cooking up 😍
Grandma loves to garden so I waited til she got here to upgrade 🥹 we're going plant shopping tomorrow! I'm thinking of getting some Japanese maples and camellias 👩🏾🌾 what else should I get!?
Got a mild concussion from catching the last out we needed (worth it!) then we're down 9-12 in the last inning, I went up with two outs, got on base & an RBI, then Captain Justin went behind me, we're on 1st & 2nd then Morgan kicks it far so me & Justin slide home for the 12-11 game win!!! 🥳 HELL YA
rich because I can fill my dining table full of friends and feed them homemade Guatemalan food 🥹🙏🏾
My soul cat Muñeca died of kidney disease & bc I was poor I couldn't afford care & she suffered 😓 but now I'm caring for my 15 yo senior Valentino w/ the resources help him age comfortably & I feel blessed. He's got stage 1 kidney disease but still spicy so the vet says he's got more life to live 😭🩷
POV: don't bother me I'mma be grillin and chillin all weekend 🙂↕️
No but fr 😭 Also: I've never actually visited NYC, only been through it for travel, so I MUST GO! I'm making it happen next year... I want to see central park so bad 🥲
and we're going to the finals next week for my underdog league team 🤭
a full weekend of enjoying being a kick baller instead of a city councilor 🥲🏃🏾♀️🔴
this garden is growing with zero help from me 🥹 it's giving resilience ✨🌿
