Indigo Rising
Indigo Rising is a collective of Trans BIPOC artists, healers, and earth workers envisioning a liberated world. We encourage our communities to tap into the relationship with self to build in ceremony with the ancestors while engaging land as ritual. We strive to increase accessibility to forms of care within our community while creating space for healing of self and the earth.
Give this amazing interview a listen! Here’s a transcript to follow along as well.
Interview by Kitty and Saka Gupta (they/them)
Give this amazing interview a listen! Here’s a transcript to follow along as well.
Interview by Kitty and Saka Gupta (they/them)
Indigo Rising - "Collective's Integrity Guidelines" (current boundaries & accountability to their collective's integrity that they pass on to those they do land collaborations with)
Our Collective’s Integrity Guidelines:
We engage boundaries as tools to help us maintain our integrity to our offer of labor.
These guidelines serve as a form of protection of our collective’s sustainability within this work as we collaborate with others. This is being shared so that those who work with us know how we prioritize safe space building and ethical practices within land, identity & community.
We do not offer our free labor to spaces that center the benefit of White settlers.
We hold a protection of our labor and energy as Black & Indigenous people by maintaining that our work be centered in spaces where the local BIPOC
community can fully access our healing offerings.
We hold a protection of our identities and our expressions of our spirit. We are willing to bear witness to the learning transformation of others as long as our trans identities and truths are fully seen and uplifted in affirming ways. We expect for the correction of misgendering behavior and the use of accurate pronouns for each individual
to become a loving habit of maintaining a safe space.
We hold a protection of Black & Indigenous healing traditions and technologies to be honored fully in our actions & words. We are in consistent practice of noticing, and releasing the ways colonial engagements to land and community can arise in all of us who
have been raised to perpetuate these violent systems. We encourage all those who our work touches to be within this same process of shedding violent colonial teachings and embracing the wisdom that comes from our healing lineages within the diaspora.
Gente de Tierra
"Gente de Tierra is a resource coalition and network of diasporic and marginalized parents, organizers, artists, laborers, activists, and land reclamationists rooting in Lenapehoking. Gente de Tierra is Black and Indigenous founded, centered, and led; having come together to escape gender, race, and other colonial violences at our places of work and within our life systems. Our shared vision is a community with just means of living, working, and future building; established through divesting and uprooting ourselves from exploitative and genocidal economic, environmental, agricultural, and social systems."
Gente de Tierra’s Linktree
Gente de Tierra’s Fiscal Sponsor Membership Manual
Liberated Lands
Isa Jamira is a garden educator from Mount Vernon, New York. She started urban gardening and farming in 2017 as an environmental studies college intern at Bates College. In college she was hired to manage a 1.6 acre student run farm. She helped name the garden the “PLOT” standing for the literal definition “plot: a small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as gardening” an acronym “People Learning Outside Together.“ As a full time student, she taught her peers about gardening and assisted harvesting nearly two thousand pounds of produce for the dining hall.
Since graduating, Isa returned home to work independently as a garden educator and has been recognized for her work in Teen Vogue, Slow Food USA, and Yahoo’s In the Know. As an artist, activist, and farmer, the 26-year old creates educational experiences around food and land. Through hosting and facilitating social events, she creates welcoming spaces for people to have fun, learn, and collectively set intentions for a safe and just future. Her work encourages and teaches people to foster a relationship with our Earth by growing food, using environmentally-friendly technology, composting, volunteering in community, and sharing knowledge.
Isa stopped operating as a sole proprietor, founded Liberated Lands Inc., and acquired an acre of land to grow the first Liberated Lands campus in 2022.
Since graduating, Isa returned home to work independently as a garden educator and has been recognized for her work in Teen Vogue, Slow Food USA, and Yahoo’s In the Know. As an artist, activist, and farmer, the 26-year old creates educational experiences around food and land. Through hosting and facilitating social events, she creates welcoming spaces for people to have fun, learn, and collectively set intentions for a safe and just future. Her work encourages and teaches people to foster a relationship with our Earth by growing food, using environmentally-friendly technology, composting, volunteering in community, and sharing knowledge.
Isa stopped operating as a sole proprietor, founded Liberated Lands Inc., and acquired an acre of land to grow the first Liberated Lands campus in 2022.
Stellar Roots
Stellar Roots is a grassroots cooperative intentional community established in 2019. Our organization, based in the Appalachian Region of Central Virginia, is led by Black queer women committed to the education and liberation of the land and ourselves in tandem. We make wellness accessible by partnering with BIPOC communities around the world, offering nature-centered therapies such as healing artist residencies, land stewardship activities, and mind-body workshops/events. We trust that as we heal the hand, we heal ourselves.
Interview by Julia
Interview by Julia
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