This is a living document lifting up some of the individuals and groups that I am learning from (sometimes with, though I don’t directly know most of these folks). As a white person, I am trying to heed the calls to better cite my sources to avoid erasing the contributions of BIPOC creators, teachers, and lineages as well as to channel resources & recognition where they are due.
If something I’m saying or offering resonates with you, please go support and learn from the many folks who have shaped me & my work:
- adrienne maree brown: so much to learn & feel into with amb’s work, whether blog posts or Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, and How to Survive the End of the World Podcast (created in collaboration with her sister, Autumn Brown)
- All My Relations podcast, created by Matika Wilbur & Adrienne Keene
- Autostraddle has shaped my identity as a queer woman since I was 16
- Beth Godbee of Heart-Head-Hands (my accountability/pod partner!)
- Beth Maiden & Little Red Tarot, including that site’s history as a blog for inclusive tarot practice
- Charlie L’strange (@eye.charlie3) and their many healing gifts: Reiki, pleasure activism, sex as healing, mediumship & intuitive readings
- Diana Rose of Damascena Healing Arts and her astrology teaching through her Patreon
- generative somatics and many teachers in this somatic healing & transformation lineage:
- Danielle Feris for new practices & shapes around resourcing movements
- Prentis Hemphill for practices & writing as well as the Finding our Way podcast
- Spenta Kandawalla of Jaadu Acupuncture
- Staci Haines and her new book The Politics of Trauma
- Sumitra Rajkumar for wisdom via one-on-one sessions and writing
- Joanna Macy, especially Active Hope
- La Loba Loca for accessible herbalism education
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and her disability justice anthology, Care Work
- Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan‘s Fumbling Towards Repair
- Mia Mingus, especially on accountability & apology and pod building (also as part of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective)
- Resmaa Menakem, originator of cultural somatics & author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts & Bodies
- Sarah M. Chappell and her soul-centered business coaching through the Holistic Business Academy
- Susan Raffo, politicized bodyworker & writer
- Tada Hozumi with their work around cultural somatics
- Trauma Aware Care, as well as the individual work of Jess Jackson (Soft Path Healing) and Andrea Papin
