Practices and Portals
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Building Liberatory Futures Within Precarity: Practices of Ancestral Recovery & Why They Matter for White People Today
This co-authored piece offers an overview of the foundational practices and apprenticeships orienting the Re-Calling Our Ancestors team’s framework of ritual inquiry in ancestral recovery, truth-telling, and collective repair.
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Guided Practice: Ancestors at Our Backs
This recorded practice invites our ancestors to back us up in our organizing work and inform our strategies for justice at this time. They are reaching for us always. They support our movements for self determination at the level of our bodies. We only need to develop our capacity to reach…
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Rituals of Remembrance
This is an offering for memory collection, of upholding a day of reckoning in 2019 for white bodied people to acknowledge the 400 year anniversary of the first enslaved African people brought to the shores of what is now called the United States. The sharing of this Ritual of Remembrance…
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Tending My Mother’s Fire
From my perspective, participating in culturally attuned ceremony is one wing of the bird of solidarity. The other wing is an active commitment to being in right relations, based on unity and support for all Peoples. My submission is a radical invitation to reconnect to a reciprocal engagement with all…
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Retrospective
This piece emerged over the course of several visits to an Amalia Mesa-Bains exhibit, as I interacted with my friends, parents, and children around the exhibit’s themes of culture, history, immigration, spirituality, violence, and much more. I was moved by the exhibit’s beauty and power, and I wondered what it…
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Cultivating Wholeness
From 2019-2022, we served as the tenders of the “white branch of humanity” for the Decolonize Race Project. This writing is our effort to capture how this experience reshaped us and our relationship to our whiteness. We extend deep gratitude to all of our Decolonize Race colleague friends, and to…
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Prayer for the Descendants
I share about the process of recovering one’s indigenous mind and a prayer for all those of European descent to find a way back to their indigenous ancestral roots as a path of healing and repair.
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How We Heal From White Supremacy – from the Inside Out
This article offers white-identified people an applied and cyclical list of practices for reckoning with our colonial lineage and healing the internalized patterns that sustain white supremacy. This piece highlights that white people’s internal healing is essential, not separate from, collective liberation and solidarity with BIPOC communities. Be gentle with…
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Mixed Clans: Finding Hybrid Pathways to Belonging
My submission is a personal story about a gathering in the Scottish Highlands this summer. It focuses on my experience of cultural poverty and how we can divest from whiteness by creating new/old, Earth-honoring and life-giving cultures. It also grapples with the complexity of being a white settler doing cultural…
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A Guide: How to Lead a Ritual for Someone Accepting the Assignment of Ancestor Work
I created this ritual because one way or another, there will be white people in the future, and it’s up to us to shape how we’ll show up. It is an offering to anyone looking to work with their own ancestors using a liberatory lens. How might we evolve if we learned to meet our…
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Ancestor Dreams + For the Fire Gods
These paintings form a visual residue of my explorations into the pre-Christian spirituality of my European ancestors, reaching towards the collective consciousness of a time when “white people” were indigenous to specific places and revered rather than destroyed the land. They are my prayers and spells; they are my synesthetic…