My values

How I “Here”

 
 

I Do It For The Mirror


My work unapologetically flows from and towards my lived experience. I am a fat Black queer disabled femme acutely aware of the ways the world attempts to both disappear and exploit my existence. My work is revolutionary and regular in the fact that it both revokes consent AND pays dust to any narrative that dares to tell me I don’t deserve to be here or celebrate myself. My world informs my commitment to a full bodied liberation for ALL of us, especially those who have also experienced yt failurim’s raggedy attempt at marginalization.

I Get Dreamy With It


I have always found dominant culture’s insistence on being “realistic” when it comes to imagining the future odd, and as I get deeper into the ancestral, wellness, and liberation practice of dreamwork I understand it to be downright violent. The world does not need more reality, it needs a radical reimagining that prioritizes our collective care. My commitment to that starts with myself. I understand that it is the dream of my lineage (ancestors and descendants) that I experience abundance rest, pleasure, ease, and more in this lifetime and I take that offering seriously. I extend grace to myself and others as we navigate a world that is inherently at odds with that approach and create space to pivot and reimagine my life as needed to remain in right relationship with the gift.

 
 
 

I Sankofa HEAVY

Sankofa is an Adinkra concept that means “go back and get it” and it is often depicted as a bird with its head turned backwards while its feet face forward carrying a precious egg in its mouth. It teaches us there is power in being in active relationship with all of our selves and those who are before and after us. It subverts the idea of Western linear time and reminds us that at all times we have access to the divine and intangible. I make a practice of revering and humanizing my ancestors and descendants because I know that everything available to them is also within my reach. I speak often about my mamas - literal, literary, and of liberation. The womxn and femmes who made space for me constantly send me reminders that I am moving in legacy and have permission to do my part to add something beautiful to the canon for the babies after me.

I Don’t Code Switch in My Dancery


I have as someone once put it “a masterful usage of language.” I am able to put language to complex concepts and feelings in a way that is powerful that often feels effortless. AND I do it in my way. I speak with an ancestral twang and reference iconic lines from my childhood bops. I cuss a little. I cackle and cry and experience all the emotions in between. I am able to intuitively adapt to environments and understand the significance of “time/place” but in the words of YesterKelse in a 2019 journal entry “I operate in a fullness I don’t shapeshift out of.”

 
 
 

I Experiment

As a dreamworker, I’m called to work with the intangible and a lot of times that looks like bringing things I’ve never seen before earthside with the help of intuition and spirit. I am drawn to the idea of tinkering, learning and reflecting in public, because I don’t believe growth is a top secret project that can only be revealed when I have something fancy to show off. In my practice, I lead with yes/and - an acknowledgment that multiple variables are always at play and an invitation to sit in the messy yet meaningful complexities of our existence. 

I Return To Love


I know that my purpose in life is to give love, receive love, and be love. I am a human that experiences a wide range of emotions/states of being but I always strive to return to love. For self, for community, for possibility. I choose love.