Organizations & Causes to Support!
I’d like to give thanks to the many events, organizations and teachers that have paved the way toward education and upliftment whose work in deconstructing the social constructs of race, gender and spiritual inequality have paved the way for a more just, balanced and irresistible world climate to emerge.
The forums and organizers listed here have done incredible work and many of them have owned their privilege and operated from a place of true spiritual upliftment and deconstruction of white supremacy, heteronormative, patriarchal colonized systems of oppression through their voice, vision, medicine and wisdom.
These Love Warriors and Re-Dreamers have catalyzed actions and sentiments which have propelled social, spiritual, sexual and political justice to new levels of healing and regeneration.
Trailblazers and Dreamweavers of what is possible when we create spaces of inclusivity, intersectionality, awareness, safety, resistance, resilience and accessibility to all people and all beings.
I give thanks and illuminate with deep reverence the educators, events and alliances who have helped to propel, uplift, catalyze and care for me and who have valued my presence as a teacher, artist, poet and fierce outspoken wise woman.
Check out the amazing work these accomplices and heart led revolutionaries are doing in their own communities and around the globe:
Climbing Poetree
Dynamic Duo Warrior Gahdesses Folk Media Architects Activists and Poets redesigning possibility and promise of a more irresistible just and Sheart led future.
Truth Worker Theatre Company
Social justice based, hip-hop theatre company founded and directed by Samara Gaev, for high school and college-aged youth in Brooklyn, NY. Providing youth leadership programming, professional stipends, and rigorous artistic training.
Soul Fire Farm
Ending Racism and injustice in our food system. Black & Latinx farmers immersions, land reclamation, youth programs, food justice & deconstruction of food apartheid.
Adaku Utah/Harriets Apothecary
Black Healing Village & Mobile Holistic Wellness Sanctuary for POC & LGBTQ & the Accomplices that love them inspired by the work & liberation of freedom fighter Harriet Tubman. herbalism, holistic healing, wellness, deconstructing capitalism consciousness, promoting self care and cooperative economic models of upliftment.
Rising Appalachia & The Rise Collective
Global sound architects, song keepers, story tellers, social justice advocates & my daughters gayness mama’s. Tracking footsteps to the ways music connects us on a more broad and buoyant spectrum of consciousness
Cortina Jenelle
Web Design, Branding & Business Doula, Poet, Creative Facilitator, Gahdess of Communications & Community Building. Seeker of the Authenticity in us ALL.
Amita Swadhin
Survivor, educator, storyteller, healer.
Ev’Yan Whitney
Sexuality and Empowerment Gahdess
Adina Rivers
Tantrika, Sexual Educator, Sexuality and Empowerment for Grown Ass Folks
Derrick Jaxn
Poet, philanthropist, relationship guru empowering men & women through real talk & video blogs books, social media & empowerment appearances.
Stephan Lebossiere
Real love, real talk, real relationships relationship coach, author, speaker
Others
Below is a list of events, educators and performers who have impacted my own work and whose innovations and initiatives have been a catalyst in global change visioning:
South East Wise Woman Conference
Daughters of the Earth Gathering
Belly and Womb Conference
Afro Punk Festival
Allied Media Conference
The Michigan Women’s Music Festival
Alternate Roots Arts Community Activism
LEAF Community Arts
Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference
The Audre Lorde Project
Black Woman’s Blueprint
Women’s Voices World Wide
Mother Woman
Women in Power
The Prison Birth Project
Trinity Hip Hop Festival
Beat Global (formerly Beat NYC)
Olatokunboh Obasi/Well of Indigenous Wisdom
Lenelle Moise
Rocio Alarcon
Lago Negro(Guatemala)
Ani Difranco
Nahko and Medicine for the People
Angela Davis
Assata Shakur
Imani Izuri
Sonia Sanchez
Tem Blessed
The Luminaries
Congo Sanchez
Natasha Diggs
Swoon