what fills my well

connected nodes of nourishment, learning, thought, and practice

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~ living/practicing humans ~

Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ freedom practice, ancestral practice, poetry & interspecies learning

Akwaeke Emezi’s worldbuilding practice, writings, and shared views on gender and spirituality

ALOK’s shares on liberating gender expression and explorations of the intersections of gender, race & trauma

Prentis Hemphill’s teachings & shares on boundaries, embodied healing and healing towards justice

Bayo Akomalafe’s propositions around getting lost as a way to reentangle ourselves with the world and each other. as well as his expansive inquiries/imaginings of a post-activist post-nationalist global community

Brooke Herr’s spiritual guidance & peer practitioner support

moonheart’s world and EVERything there: music, magic, worldbuilding, dreamscaping, poetry, stop-motion & claymation

tourmaline’s art and visioning including freedom dreaming . a great teacher in everyday-architecting the world i want to live in that’s full of pleasure, sensuality, expression, and play

Empress Karen Rose’s regular shares on plant medicine, herbal allies and astrological interpretations

Sanyu Estelle’s writings and soothsaying shares on reality, culture, & existence

cody cookparrot’s sharing on improvisation as an umbrella practice & their book getting to center

Kamra Sadia Hakim (aka Care Ecologist)’s care, spacemaking, abundance, & futurity practices

activation residency’s dream activating & radical centering of care & Blackness in the movement towards liberation

Annika Hansteen-Izora’s community engaged n liberation oriented art & design

MaryAnn George’s celebratory & trans magic practices

Donna Thomson’s introduction and development of SourcePoint and SourcePoint Therapy, a non-invasive energy bodywork

Lise Silva Gomes’ practices of symbol weaving and colorscaping

Resmaa Menakem’s teachings in his book My Grandmother’s Hands and on Somatic Abolition

nisha ahuja & MeLisa Moore of SOMA Integrative Wellness (now closed) & their equity teachings thru Radical Deep Self Love

Sonya Renee Taylor’s liberatory and activating reflections/shares on racial equity & self-empowerment ,, as part of a larger practice and paradigm she calls Radical Self Love

Olafur Eliasson’s elemental art, spatial research, and large-scale participatory installations

Ellen Rutt’s abstract visual explorations of place, environment, and process

Christi Jay’s spiritual symbol-weaving textile practice

Maceo Paisley’s multidisciplinary practice that grounds thought in movement, language, and imagery

~ writings ~

Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication by meenadchi

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Non-Monogamy by Jessica Fern

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger by Lama Rod Owens

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrianne maree brown

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Linda Barry

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe

What Can A Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sarah Hendren

Your Wound: My Garden poetry by ALOK

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

~ creative ancestors ~

Hilma af Klint (channel, mystic, medium, painter) ~ channeled painting/visual expressions, abstract spiritual artist, symbol weaver

Hélio Oiticica (sculptor, performance artist, environment builder, theorist) ~ experiential mediums that invite the viewer inside, participant as collaborator, color practice, environmental art, celebrating/resting/transporting with art

Pamela Colman Smith (artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist) ~ channeled paintings, symbol weaving illustrations (illustrator of the Waite–Smith tarot deck)

James Baldwin (writer, speaker, theorist, activist) ~ wordwielding as a pathway to connecting with awareness and underlying order, spiritual channeling of ideas

David Wojnarowicz (painter/multimedia artist, photographer, filmmaker, songwriter, aids activist) - self taught artist using multimedia as a way to navigate multidimensions, strong theos and visual language/vocabulary (symbol weaver)

Agnes Pelton (abstract painter, symbolist, spiritualist) ~ abstract, color-driven expressions of spiritual experience, symbol weaving

bell hooks (writer, educator, wordwielder, activist) ~ futurist writing and language shifting, self-defining practice, approach to knowledge sharing and reempowerment

James Joyce (writer, wordweilder) ~ molding the language to convey greater/more complex truths, portmanteau enthusiast, stream of consciousness writing as a doorway to spirit, mundane is magical