Howdy! I'm
I grow flowers, stories, dreams,and pleasure practices.
A budding herbalist and magic seeker, I dream of wild and free futures of joyous care. My last twenty years span an Appalachian, liberation-centered journey of:
community media
rural resilienceRaised along creeks and coal trains, my current offerings sprout from deep mountain healing technologies:
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herb medicine
- storytelling magic
- biomimicry
and beyond…
I love to bring us home to ourselves.
I currently have two exciting projects emerging:
- The 8th House: A Healing Justice Practice Lounge, first debuted at the 2024 Creating Change gathering in New Orleans, LA. We are exploring and enacting healing spaces around the 8th House of astrology themes of grief, mental health, death, and transformation, primarily with queer and trans people. See our vision.
- Season V of my pleasure podcast debuts under the September 2024 full moon themed around Healing Justice and sponsored by the Kentucky Foundation for Women's Art Meets Activism program. Full interviews with healers post on my Patreon each full moon, with short highlights airing on public radio.
I’d love to connect with you around these new blooms and more. Reach out.
Have we worked together?
Your feedback is a gift. Ecosystems rely on constant feedback loops to thrive and so do we. Share your thoughts!
"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation.
– bell hooks
Healing is an act of communion."
Like bell hooks, rural Kentucky roots and queer becoming guide my path. bell taught me the first healing justice principle:
collective trauma is healed collectively.
We practice the world we want within the old, together. From gardens to assemblies, organizing is a magical practice and investment in the future. By age 30, I helped seed two Appalachian futurist organizations and a radical media company, all rooted enough to grow without me now.
The traumas of capitalism eroded me along the way. Since leaving full-time work in 2019, slow pruning has spurred regeneration and new blooms. We've all shared the terror of recent years. Healing Justice provides a framework for healing in community and growing through collective grief. Our roots are deep and soil abundant. Let's learn from bugs and listen to plants; Float healing waters and expand our harvest.
