Visionary emergent healing in queer community on the horizon 🌅 And an invitation to support it! 🌙⭐️🌞 An incredibly beautiful group is in formation for our 2nd annual QUEER \\ TRANS YOGA RETREAT April 9-15 2023 At Casa Tara @casatararetreat Collaboratively offered by: Avery @yoga_with_avery Tiger @liveyourown.life Meesha @alchemystic_studio 🌈 We have just a few spots left - If you want to join us, check out all the info and apply at yogawithavery.com 💘 LINK IN BIO One reason we are doing an application process is to create a space that is at least 🏳️‍⚧️50% trans n nonbinary folks, and at least 🤎50% Black Indigenous people of Color. In addition to equity pricing, we are fundraising to provide extra support! 💌🗝️💰🌈 This time our scholarship efforts are focused on supporting Black QTs to attend this incredibly special gathering. Can you help us? Inspiration from Meesha: …we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make sure the container is intentional, diverse, and inclusive. We are putting out a call to make this endeavor more feasible for ourselves and more importantly, the folks that want to attend. 🌟ASK: If you are not a QTBIPOC person in the community, you can help us gift this retreat to someone who is, and may not be able to attend due to financial constraints? We are looking to fundraise $3900. This is a wonderful way to practice yoga off of the mat; an ancient practice called karma yoga asks us to give while expecting nothing in return, which inevitably blesses us with the boons of our practice. Sometimes we need to lean on our community for help, and that is perfectly ok, and quite frankly, the natural order of things. You can donate at the LINK IN OUR BIO. Any amount helps, so if you can't go, please consider helping someone that wants to!! ——- Sharing/ saving this post, tagging folks in the comments, sharing the link and info about this fundraiser also helps too! Thank you in advance 🌺 #collectivecare #commmunitylove #queertransyoga image ID in comments (at Casa Tara Retreat) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnfcnwqvphk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Rest as Resistance

Most mornings I wake up between 6-6:30am to take the puppy for a pee and let the chickens out of the coop. I’m not naturally a morning person but I’ve come to appreciate these early outings; watching the sun rise, enjoying the glimmer of the dew on the wildflowers. But there comes a time when I calculate in my head the number of hours of sleep the previous night as I decide whether to stay awake or go back to sleep. I weigh the possibility of a quiet early morning cup of coffee and snuggle with dogs with the memory of my exhaustion level at 7pm the evening before and almost always choose sleep.

Lately, when I snuggle back into our family nest to doze, I feel a bit smug, like my sleep is in defiance of the work culture that pressures me to be ever-more productive. It feels a bit like a quiet “fuck you” to my own mental conditioning brought on my a society that tries to guilt trip me for taking care of my body and mind.

"People are waking up. People are waking up to the truth of their manipulation under toxic systems. People are waking up to heal. People are waking up to rest." - The Nap Ministry @thenapministry

It’s funny that capitalism can rob us of our bodies for so long and convince us that this is normal. My partner’s knees are shot from working as a mechanic for 10 years. My son used to fall asleep in his classroom in grade 2. I used to commute over an hour one way to a corporate job I hated. What’s worse: we now glorify this grind culture: side jobs, exhausted boss babes, endless busy-ness.

Even after a year of checking out, I still struggle with valuing the quality of my day on how productive it was. What’s worse: on how financially productive it was. My partner and I recently made the decision that I would stop taking on new clients in my freelance work so that I can focus on the boys, growing food, and our family business. I was amazed at how hard of a transition this was. Even after all this time, I still saw my paid work as more valuable than my non-paid work. And only in the last month have I made any progress in unlearning that rest is equally valuable to work, paid or un-paid.

I’m slowly discovering that my existence goes beyond the labour that my body/mind can produce. I’m also discovering that I do not need to sacrifice rest in order to be deemed worthy. For those that carry the additional burden of oppression like BIPOC and neurodivergent folks, this pressure to be productive is extra heavy and the need for rest all the more dire. It’s time that we dismantle the capitalist culture that robs us of our sleep-ins, our naps, our snuggles on the couch in the name of profitability.

Posted @withregram • @peoplescrisisline ✨~looking for volunteers~✨hey lovely community, are you interested in getting more involved? We need your help to sustain our work and continue providing free peer support. Email us at [email protected]. Please share in your circles! . #volunteers #mutualaid #solidarity #peersupport #pdx #peoplescrisislinepdx #peoplescrisisline #peersupport #pdxcrisis #portlandcrisis #powertothepeople #community #communitycare #collectivecare #collectivepower #calltoaction https://www.instagram.com/p/CKz-01HjZzHnCFSVQ4PJRFJd4BqpuR3edv4lQs0/?igshid=19r3rn1u19jsg

Don’t forget about the forgotten members of your community - repost from @peoplescitycouncil #mutualaid #collectivecare #directaction (at Inglewood, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFs5WpPDojG/?igshid=hc8ovyk9c736

#Repost @em_swami • • • • • • What is politically, socially and economically possible has always been about WILL and the illusion of the status quo. The Coronavirus pandemic has exaggerated and brought to the forefront the gross inequalities we always knew existed. But for many it’s much more close to home than usual. It has exposed the system we live in, where twenty-six individuals own as much wealth as HALF the world’s population. Where there is that much wealth in governments and corporations, yet people are being sent away from hospitals due to bed shortages, mass graves dug for those who can’t afford funerals and body bags being sent to Indigenous communities instead of cleaning products. We’ve been given an opportunity to realise global change is possible, that we can reduce our damage to Mother Earth and our governments do have the resources to support vulnerable people. Many of us have had time to slow down and realise what is actually important to us, what we really do need and what we have left we can share with others. The biggest loss in this is if we come out the other side unchanged. Normal only served the elite. We the people, it’s time to imagine the revolution. #carenotcages #freethemall #collectivecare #capitalismisthevirus #capitalismkills #dismantletheempire #classism #healthcareisahumanright #redistributethewealth #eattherich #decolonize #revolution #revolt #wethepeople #disrupt #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWA33NjDwF/?igshid=1p6ujomr9qiso

This morning I took a deep Breath and cried for the first time this week. I looked at my skin and so many thoughts rushed through my head. When did my life goals become not to be a hashtag. Simply being Black has me marked with a permanent target on my back. I know the pain of being falsely accused and how devastated it left me. How easily and quickly I was dehumanized; it gave new meaning to the living dead. I don't know how I would have ever gotten through that time period without my community. Incubator of compassion, to just Be, to just Breathe. #BLACKLIVESMATTER #icantbreathe #sacredritual #qtpoc #bipoc #lgbtq #queerwoc #blackfemme #blacklgbtq #communitycare #communityhealing #collectivecare #healingjustice https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxjj_eBhaV/?igshid=yi9e1mo9hhk3

#Repost @wellreadblackgirl ... Team #WellReadBlackGirl is discovering new ways to practice wellness and cultivate community during the pandemic — with the current state of things, everything can start to feel hopeless. Yet most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. We want to know how you’re remaining hopeful...what are you reading for inspiration? Right now, I’m revisiting #ToniCadeBambara’s THE SALT EATERS. A novel that “brilliantly explores the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being” ❤️ We’re inviting you to share your #wellnessjourney with us. Share your acts of self-care & HOPEFUL reading list in the comments below 📖 🙏🏾 #nowreading #collectivecare (at Durham, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAG7bglHTxG/?igshid=d1us0h9gd9wz

COME APRIRE UN NIDO PIRATA NEL QUARTIERE

Un piccolo manuale che racconta, partendo da un’esperienza specifica, come si costruisce uno spazio per la cura collettiva di bambini e bambine in età da nido. 

Autogestito da genitori e insegnanti, il laboratorio SopraSotto nasce a Milano nel 2013 come risposta attiva all’insufficienza di posti nei nidi pubblici, problema diffuso principalmente nelle grandi metropoli.

Senza pretese di completezza, questo manuale racconta come una comunità di oltre una cinquantina di famiglie, accomunate da forme di contrattualizzazione lavorative “atipiche”, ha costruito attraverso l’organizzazione, la partecipazione e alcuni dispositivi digitali, un’alternativa che sembra funzionare: un luogo sensibile alle trasformazioni in corso dei tempi vita/lavoro e una comunità che contrasta la solitudine come condizione diffusa oggi di molti giovani genitori. 

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Repost from @raeekayassaie • 17% of young adults in Iran are gay or lesbian according to a survey conducted by the Iranian parliament in 2014. The number of queer-identifying individuals has likely risen since 2014, consistent with trends around the world. 🌈 What can you do to support the queer community in Iran? ➡️ Tag any LGBTQ+ individuals, influencers or organizations you follow and ask them to uplift this post and share the solidarity graphic on the last slide to their grid. Share it to your own grid/stories too! ➡️ Follow the hashtag #QueerIran ➡️ Ask your local/national LGBTQ+ organizations to host events such as Iranian panels/Q&A sessions and Iranian LGBTQ+ documentary viewings. 🌈Need a panelist? Contact @paykanartcar 🌈Need resources? Visit QueerIranianCoalition.com 🌈Submit any footage or images from the event to [email protected] ➡️ Follow and uplift Queer Iranian activists: @6rangiran @paykanartcar melika.zarr @omid_ir1987 @amira.zolghadri @shayagoldoust @nimania11 @artemis_akbary @moj @royazara @savage_taste @matthewnouriel @shadi.amin.real @sobhan_nofar @cyrusveyssi @hausofmilad @nimayajam @ozi_ozar @montrehtavakkoli @raeekayassaie ➡️ Ask your government to show solidarity (action plan listed in slide deck) This slide deck was done in collaboration with @montrehtavakkoli ❤️🌈 #QueerIran #LGBTQ #QueerActivism #QueerStagram #LGBTQCommunity #LGBTQRights #LGBTQLove #lgbtq🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTQSupport #CollectiveLiberation #CollectiveCare (at Iran) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmsonVsOGQc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Repost @moxie.cc ・・・ Terms like “lockdown” or “sheltering in place” and even “social distancing” can feel scary and isolating. So we’re reframing! We’re staying home as a form of community care, and using this as an opportunity to discover new ways of checking in with each other and deepening relationships online. . Art by @unitedstatesartists a light purple background with white lettering spelling out a quote from Grace Lee Boggs that says “The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.” . . . #GraceLeeBoggs #GraceLeeBoggsQuote #GraceLeeBoggsQuotes #StayAtHome #SocialDistancing #ShelterInPlace #Lockdown #MutualAid #CollectiveCare #CultureOfCare #COVID19 #MentalHealth #MindAndBody #ReconnectWithYourself #SlowDown #AdvocateForYourself #ChangeTheCulture #Diversity #DiversityAndInclusion #DiversityEquityAndInclusion #DiversityEquityAndInclusionQuotes #DiversityConsultants ##DiversityEquityAndInclusionConsultants #MoxieCC #CommunityCare https://www.instagram.com/p/B-QAuvRggnC/?igshid=p78zjomzglpl

As we stand on the precipice of neo-fascism, beware of those who urge you to isolate, turn inwards, shy away from collectivity. That fuels the Trump agenda. There is no resistance in that.

*DATA FEELS happenings and pamphlets are loose IRL DIY assemblages of URL DIY collective care / cultures of care / radical dependency.

If you happen to be in NYC after the holiday, DATA FEELS is having a little event. Pauline Anna Strom will call in from San Francisco to lead us in a remote healing session. Voice Training’s planning a special set that responds to the zine – exploring the feelings of their own care community (including outrage). Grab a copy of the zine, immerse yourself in sounds, and have some snacks!

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Posted @withrepost • @neuroqueerasian ableds actually down for accessibility should hand over leadership & material support to disabled folx. put your money where your mouth is by investing in us, knowing that our underrepresentation is at a COST to your services, institution, & equity work. this shouldn't be a hot take, just facts. 🌺 [ID in alt text & comments] ⟡ #Ableism #AccessIsLove #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityAdvocate #SpoonieLife #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #ADHDLife #MentalIllness #IntersectionalFeminism #TransformativeJustice #CollectiveCare #HigherEducation https://www.instagram.com/p/B56kv8bj-5aZ_o-_I2IcA5oJio03uCIQOfMhZU0/?igshid=jl5vuhzl8qe