conective tissue, spider webs
There are so many people i love and sites i am grateful for. here is just a small list and i updated it periodically, meaning it is getting less small by the minute. and it STILL isn’t exhaustive. these are sites that i visit often or representing work that has deeply impacted me.
adrienne maree brown this is where we get to watch her new books unfold, something that goes deeper than social media posts but that isn’t yet the book
alexis pauline gumbs. because it is a gift to be alive at the same time she is, and to learn from her. period.
archivists supporting activists. remember, history is the story told by the conquerers, unless we document our side of things. let history be about contradiction and collectivity. archive that data!
asha shoffner. asha is kick-ass and has hugely expanded the number of opportunities for BIPOC folks to be in nature, in wilderness together without white folks ruining the buzz. part of what is glorious about minnesota is this land, the fact that bears and wolves wander through the minnesota river throughway at the base of the mall of america and more.
ashley fairbanks read her words. find her through social media.
aurora levins morales. her blogging and work
ayosomatics.com - one of my beloved whoot whoot people here in the Cities. ayo is now holding somatics gatherings for BIPOC folks. contact her for more information.
beyond land acknowledgement: a guide is an offering from the native governance center that provides clear and concrete steps for settlers and other non-native folks to move towards honoring sovereignty and land/back.
*black lives matters healing in action toolkit
black visions collective creating the conditions for long term success and transformation
bdote memory map. dakota memory map of Mnisota
brown star girl. the website of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
*changing frequencies. one of cara page’s projects focused on memory work and installations
climate impact lab. just what it says
creative interventions toolkit an incredible and generous gift from Mimi Kim and others to promote a community-based approach to ending interpersonal violence. Stunning, really.
deep medicine circle healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, restoration and learning
*dignity and power now healing justice toolkit
(divorcing) white supremacy culture. tema okun’s offering and deepening of the powerful and necessary white supremacy culture framework.
dori midnight. dori’s work with plant medicine and dori’s work on jewish cultural reclamation and healing is, well, incredible.
dr. diana ink’lekich. naturopathic doctor based in Michigan
eli clare’s blogging and listing of work
enoughenough created by dean spade and tyrone boucher, this site is no longer active. the site presents tools and reflections on resisting capitalism. the material is still, of course, relevant. what is enough?
front line defenders. on global human rights defenders
great lakes commons. collective community and vision building of the lands surrounding the big waters/great lakes
*handbook on holistic security while healing justice has been the framework in the US, holistic security is the cousin framework outside the US, started by feminists in the global majority
healing histories project. yeah, i know. it’s part of my work but i thought i would include it here as well. End the MIC.
*healing justice practice spaces: a toolkit
health justice commons disability justice to end the medical industrial complex
the icarus project a site providing support and education for those who experience the world in ways often diagnosed as mental illness
indigenous food lab. this would be amazing no matter what but i feel paricularly purr-ful because it is less than a block from where i sleep at night.
intermill land history consulting it always starts with the land. always. learn about the history of the land where you live, where you work. what does it mean to be in right relationship to that land or to take a step towards living in a good way?
italian folk magic. just what it says
james vukelich ojibwe word of the day
jason sole there is a lot to say about jason’s power. i am grateful that i get to work with him through REP.
jeremy dutcher classically trained musician who weaves together traditional wolastoq songs with his classical training. my favorite musical artist. completely.
joy harjo poetry. wisdom. heart.
*just practice. shira hassan
kaweloku - norma wong’s practice site offering teachings, videos, experiences
kelly hayes co-author with mariame kaba of let this radicalize you, kelly manages a podcast and offers a range of writing on movement building that rocks my world.
*kindred southern healing justice collective. where it all began.
*la cura podcast/MIJENTEortcommittee.com/la-cura-podcast
landback a project of the ndn collective, landback is part of a coalition of native organizations fighting for landback. their strategy includes working to remove mount rushmore from paha sapa (the black hills), a sacred lakota site.
leaving evidence. mia mingus
lyla june powerful thinker, creator, change maker, writer.
maji ya chai land sanctuary. a vision for a healing space outside of Two Harbors, MN that centers BIPOC people.
makoce ikikupi Dakota land justice group.
mapping prejudice. community-led history reclamation project documenting racial covenants on houses in the cities of minneapolis and st. paul
marcie rendon. every single time she opens her mouth, i learn something. plus she writes some kick-ass crime fiction.
marie michael. amazing somatic coach and facilitator
mijente imagine a movement that is just pro-latinx
*minnesota healing justice network mutual aid healing justice network for BIPOC practitioners in Minnesota
monica bryand i love this woman who listens to birds and brings other brown and black folks along with her
mni sota makoce honor tax Whether you call it rent or repair, an honor tax recognizes a tribal claim to land. This goes to the Lower Sioux Indian Community.
mni sota native artists directory just what it says
mpd150 a people’s project evaluating policing
national native american boarding school healing project. at the time of this writing, over 6,000 children have been found who were the victims of residential schools in canada. the US has never undertaken anything similar, altho many are pushing for something similar.
national queer and trans therapist of color network. building networks, connecting and teaching therapists, working to make sure that no one has to trade or silence part of their experience to access support.
native skywatchers. oh how i love this site that is focused on revitalizing indigenous earth and sky knowledge. a sharing of l/dakota and ojibwe knowledge
nibi walk. indigenous-led extended ceremonies to pray for the water
nonnaterra, sicilian-rooted owen marciano tarot and spiritual support site
online etymological dictionary because knowing the roots helps english to be a living language again, connected rather than the description of disconnected objects
prison culture. how the prison industrial complex structures the world
queers for economic justice. archive
raquel (rocki) volaco simoes so technically, i should put this under the lgbt host home program. as that is what this refers to. but it’s my smart partner, rocki, talking about the work she did for over 25 years.
reconciling ways of knowing. such a gift from canada; a series of workshops and teachings on reconciling indigenous ways of knowing with western scientific methods. the gift of listening to elders.
relationships evolving possibilities (REP) yeah, more of my work but again, i want to lift and celebrate it so here it is.
relinquishing the patriarchy resource guide an active collective guide on resources that do this
rooting care profound conversations from the global south on holistic security and healing justice
rootsprings BIPOC-centered land-rooted retreat and care space an hour from the Twin Cities. donate here.
sherri mitchell weh’na ha’mu kwasset. the generosity of a book and teachings, her sacred instructions.
sierra seeds/rowen white. indigenous seed keeping. indigenous ancestral knowledge. and more.
signe v harriday. facilitator, organizer, performer, creatrix extraordinaire. one of the founders of the subversive sirens, overall grooviness.
soil, a transformative justice project. led by mia mingus, soil works to build the conditions for transformative justice to thrive.
traditional knowledge and medicine dictionaries. indigenous-led global work to document traditional knowledge as a block to biopiracy and private patents
*transform harm. mariame kaba’s creation with resources in healing justice, transformative justice, abolition and more
transcending jewish trauma. this site is incredible, a gift in its sharing of collectively-created maps and tools and creativities for shifting the specifics of ashkenazi jewish trauma
unsettling america. now defunct site with multiple materials on decolonization
wakan tipi awanyankapi. this is land/back. Native-led Dakota-held environmental justice project restoring life and love to formerly-called-Phalen-Creek, a stream almost destroyed by industrialization.
we take root. on land, spirit, healing and movement practices
women’s earth and climate action network, international indigenous-led and visioned
writing on the arts of social change. ricardo levins morales