ATNSC: Center for Healing & Creative Leadership

06/12/2026

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙉𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙎: 𝘼 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩, 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜

“And while we all have experiences of deep personal, even spiritual crisis in which it seems as if nobody was there, I believe that at the most fundamental and the most transcendent levels of our experiences as human beings, we are never left alone. There is always accompaniment.”

—Rosemarie Freeney Harding,
pg. 161 “Remnants”

This moment, this context.

06/08/2026

from Black Archives

06/04/2026

Q***r Histories.

PS. It was also shared with us by a community member that when our neighborhood, Buckeye-Shaker was still a predominantly Hungarian community there was a le***an bar called “The Three of Cups” on Buckeye Road.

06/04/2026

Pride Infinite. Forever.

📷: Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.

05/31/2026

Ohio.

For more than 200 years, people have gone through its doors. But its history spans far beyond Sunday service. Founded in 1819, it is the longest continuously operating African American church in Ohio.

LINK: https://shorturl.at/9L0N5

05/31/2026

We offer our deepest condolences and love to the Freeney-Harding family following the announcement of the passing of Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Harding.

Rachel supported the birth of our project sharing resources from her family’s archive and as the keynote speaker during our grand opening held virtually in November of 2020.

The book “Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering,” written by both Rachel and her mother, the late Rosemarie Freeney Harding guided our thinking about hospitality, accessing the wisdoms of our Ancestors and the usefulness of memory.

We read this text together in community through our project “ATNSC Reads.”

Learn more about Rachel’s life from the words of her family—

It is with heavy hearts and profound grief that we, the family of Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Harding, announce her peaceful passing on Monday, May 25, 2026, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil — the city she loved and called her "second home." Rachel left this earth surrounded by family and by beloved members of Terreiro do Cobre, her Candomblé home for decades. We are grateful beyond words for the Terreiro do Cobre family, the Southern Freedom Movement/Civil Rights family, and the Denver and worldwide community who held Rachel with such tenderness over the years.

A poet, historian, and scholar of religions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora, Rachel spent her life weaving together the sacred and the struggle for social justice. Her scholarship and poetry opened new ways of understanding the deep ties between Black spiritual traditions, creativity, and social transformation — her work made a profound impact on communities across the United States and Brazil. She co-directed the Veterans of Hope Project and served as associate professor emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Denver.

Details regarding a celebration of life will be shared in the coming days. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made to cavecanempoets, Indigo Arts Alliance, and The Veterans of Hope Project, an initiative founded by her parents, Rosemarie and Vincent Harding, in Denver to preserve the intersection of religion, culture, and democratic social movements.

05/29/2026

For Your Consideration.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MIZNA 27.2: ANCESTRY/INDIGENEITY
GUEST EDITED BY UMNIYA NAJAER
DUE JULY 6

Mizna is opening submissions for its newest issue, seeking poetry, prose, and hybrid literary work that focuses on ancestry and indigeneity.

Guest-edited by poet and scholar Umniya Najaer, this issue is interested in honoring Indigenous wisdoms in their many forms and giving space for writers and artists to explore their relationships to ancestry, inheritance, memory, spirit, land, flora, fauna, and the cultural practices that have grown from them.

We invite work that views ancestry and indigeneity not as static legacies, but as living practices of remembering, grieving, resisting, creating, and imagining otherwise. We are especially interested in work that attends to the intimate and collective forms through which ancestral knowledge ruptures, transforms, and survives—in kitchens, songs, ceremonies, gardens, garments, prayers, archives, dreams, rivers, ruins, and revolutionary movements. We welcome work that utilizes experimental methods to tell new stories about our ancestors, our obligations to the living, and our relationships to land, indigeneity, sovereignty, memory, and belonging.

Read the full call for submissions at mizna.org
Submit your work by July 6, 2026 at 11:59pm CT.

05/27/2026

For Your Consideration.

Sharing this opportunity for Native artists. The is now accepting applications for the 2026 Emerging Native Artist Grant through June 18th.

Created to support early-career Native and Indigenous artists, exploring the intersection of tradition and innovation in the following mediums: 2D visual arts, 3D visual arts, time-based media, multi-disciplinary arts, and traditional arts with an innovative approach.

05/26/2026

For Your Consideration.

05/22/2026

For Your Consideration.