how we embody our Ancestors’ wildest dreams, unapologetically steward our sacred gifts and weave decolonial and matriarchal worlds

AN INITIATION IN honor
of our grandmothers

DECOLONIZING
OUR IMAGINATION

Content Warning: Current events involving gender based violence and racialized violence mentioned.

Content Warning: Current events involving gender based violence and racialized violence mentioned.

We feel, because our feeling is the appropriate response to injustice.
We feel, because our feeling is the opening for a sacred re-orientation. 
We feel, because our feeling allows us to see what lives at the roots. In doing so, we begin to heal the very thing that the white-colonial-capitalist-patriarchy
has captured...
our imaginations.

BUT, OUR GRANDMOTHERS WHISPER,
 "THERE IS A WAY. YOUR GIFTS ARE NEEDED NOW."

Women carrying water baskets on their heads

We feel not out of DISPROPORTIONATE 
self-importance nor to subdue us 
towards APATHY AND inaction.

WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

So, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

In the face of collective injustice
our personal struggles
may seem insignificant and
our gifts inadequate
to tackle the ails of a sick world.

The collective invitation is to listen to the call of our Grandmothers even when the impulse may be to throw our hands up in the air and turn away.

In listening, we begin to feel.
The rage. The shame. The grief. 

We exist in a patriarchal world
where gen0c*des are normalized,
and ped@ph-les are pedestalized. 
  Where women are r@ped
and r@p*sts get off with writing essays.
Where our children are murdered
and they gaslight us saying they drowned or were lynched.

We reside in a colonial world founded on the trafficked labor of enslaved African peoples.
Soiled in the blood of
African and Indigenous peoples.
Built on brutally stolen Native lands.
Maintained on the backs of Black and brown women and femmes.
Held together by the faith of Black women.

Imagination is the map and medicine that our Grandmothers left behind. In their songs, in their foods, in their ways, in their hands. Imagination allows us to weave our medicine thread-by-thread  into decolonial and matriarchal worlds. 

TOGETHER, We'll spiral deeper TO...

Deepen and embrace the medicines of the Grandmothers as a sacred re-ordering and initiation to reclaim our ancestral inheritance

Connect to the deep and vast wisdom that lives in your lineage and enchant your heart to create the most delicious life possible

Create nourishing pathways to unapologetically and devotedly steward your most sacred gifts into our world and embody leadership that liberates us all  

Heal and break free from the ways the colonial-patriarchy has captured you, the initial step in weaving matriarchal and decolonial worlds

GATHER WITH US FOR THIS POTENT AND TIMELY INITIATION IN HONOR OF OUR GRANDMOTHERS, ALONGSIDE THE EMBODIED BLACK GIRL COMMUNITY

DECOLONIZING
OUR IMAGINATION

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Being a mother to a Black boy and bonus mom & auntie to a budding Black young woman.

Being raised by an intergenerational matriarchal village of Black women in un-gentrified Brooklyn; while financial resources were limited we were abundantly rich in creativity and community.

Being a part of organizing spaces since childhood where I was experienced firsthand the power of uniting in the name collective liberation.

At the root, my revolutionary work is to accompany cultural shapers traversing meaningful life and leadership thresholds and guide them to embrace and embody their deepest matriarchal medicine and decolonial leadership, while uprooting the ways systems of harm that steal our imaginations, sever us from our bodies and emotions and silo us from land and one another. My medicine is weaving embodied remembrance thread-by-thread to create a tapestry of healing and map for liberation. 

I look forward to spiraling deeper when we gather for Decolonizing Our Imagination.

I'm grateful and honored that you're here. 

LET'S WEAVE REVOLUTIONARY WORK AND WORLDS TOGETHER!

daughter, mother, medicine woman, COMMUNITY WEAVER, DECOLONIAL LEADERSHIP GUIDE, SOMATIC EXPERIENCING PRACTITIONER,
FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS FACILITATOR, WRITER, ARTIST, EMBODIED BLACK GIRL

One of my great honors, for nearly two decades, has been creating constellations of care where people especially Black women, femmes, gender expansive folks and members of the global majority can exhale, soften and (re)member themselves whole. 

So much informs my lens, my life, my loving and work. Some include:

Being born on the lands of Ayiti and feeling the fire of my Free Ancestors' revolution that resulted in a cascade of liberation across the world.

Coming from a long line of healers on my maternal and paternal sides.



 

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Uthandi Thérèse, host of Decolonizing Our Imaginations