Here’s what we got going on for this astro year!
A 4-month Black speculative fiction bookclub reading The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
starting in just a couple weeks, on Sunday April 6th; for people of color; if you’re interested please reach out! here’s the book synopsis:
This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze — the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization’s bedrock for a thousand years — collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman’s vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.
Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She’ll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.
Caring for the Fat Body: A 5-week Fat Liberation community group (this will be a sliding-scale offering, given the planning + preparation needed)
this Cancer season, Erica Joy will be holding another Fat Lib group! Harnessing the energy of Cancer and 5 of the planets (mercury, venus, mars, saturn, and the moon), fat folks we’ll be gently moving through questions of how we(’ve) care(d), love(d), and harm(ed) our bodies.
Embodying the Elements: A 4-month Cosmic Integrative Ecosomatics cohort (this will be a sliding scale offering, given how intensive it is!)
an expanded and more in-depth version of the program kay and Aleja put on as ProjectLETS healers-in-residence 2024: Embodying the Elements is an exploration into the essential wisdom of our bodies—the earthly wisdom they carry by way of shared foundational elements. This wisdom reflected in our natal charts of the sky, the planetary alignments that brought about our being in the world.
A twice monthly herbalism peer-to-peer learning space
a group to learn from and with each other about the importance, uses, and care of herbs.
A 4-month community organizing bookclub/study group reading Saving Our Own Lives—A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction by Shira Hassan
no prior community organizing necessary! This can be your introduction, and on the flip-side this is also open to folks who have a lot of experience working with + for your community.
Depathologizing Together: A mbongi series (peer support space) for neuroexpansive folks
with kay and Laurel of SpectacuLaur Thoughts expect to close out our Year of Study with this space beginning in Aquarius season.
2x-weekly freeform Shared Study Spaces (aka body-doubling)
of course we’ll continue having the weekly co-working with EJ, and it can be used as a gathering space for folks in the same group to talk more about what they are learning and experiencing.
and our bi-monthly Peer Supporters Support Group
a group for peer supporters + care workers to exchange alternative and non-hierachical ways of care outside of the institutionalized structure.
Do you feel particularly connected to any of these offerings? Would you like to be more involved than as a participant? Does this inspire you to hold a space of centered on an interest of yours? Please reach out! We truly want this to be a community endeavor. Let’s chat and see how it could work :) [email protected]
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