The Homebody Fellowship is for QTBIPOC artists based in the San Francisco Bay Area for the Artist Residency Program at Ma’s House on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, NY. Alma was one of three chosen artists to be awarded this fellowship. This opportunity was made possible by the Homebody Fund, a small donor-advised fund at East Bay Community Foundation, resourcing POC—especially QTPOC—spiritual/healing spaces that support community leadership and cultural transformation in decolonial movements for liberation, especially in the East Bay Area.

During their time in residence, Alma made a series of fluid figures as a meditation on the link between bodily autonomy and the beach back movement. Members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation have been in an ongoing battle to regain access to their beaches. Cooper Beach, which is on Shinnecock native land, costs $50 to park at the beach daily / $500 for the annual pass at the time of this residency in the summer of 2022. The Shinnecocks never relinquished the rights to use oceans and beaches, yet the village is charging those who live on the Reservation a fee.