Singing for Liberation: Community songleader, connector, + movement chaplain
How are we gonna survive the collapse together? How are we gonna grow a new world for our great-great-grandchildren to live together in?
Community singing is "an ancient technology of belonging" that sustains our joy and resilience, gives access to our grief, fuels our movements for justice in the streets, harmonizes our bodies somatically, and anchors our courage for the work to come. I've lead community singing at picket lines and protests, parties and potlucks, Education for Liberation workshops, grief and healing spaces, Transgender Day of Remembrance, and for anti-racist somatic praxis.
As a movement chaplain, I want to make sure we're sustainable for the long haul together. I want to make sure queer+trans folx and BIPOC+mixed race folx and disabled folx and other multiply marginalized folx get all they need to thrive.
I'm interested in deep, hyperlocal community building, how we take care of one another, and how we navigate care and conflict from an abolitionist perspective. I've been shaped by seasons of living in intentional community, building interfaith youth work, and living through the People's Uprising in Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd by the state. That's sparked a lot of the songs I'm writing today.
