Sustainability for All

11/20/2024

Like many folks, I am sad and afraid of the direction our country is headed. I want to help build community by offering some gatherings/ workshops over Zoom. Together we can do anything 🙂
I will set up 4 different themes to pilot and if there is interest beyond the pilot we can create communities of praxis together and continue meeting 🙂
1) Solidarity Happy Hour- A relaxed meeting where you can do whatever you like to relax while being in the community together - The choice is yours: bring a smoke, a drink, a snack, hot tea, or an art project, etc....I will set the tone and pick some conversation starter ideas for our first meeting and then we will decide the next one together.
2) Dreaming of a World We Want to Live In- Often when working for a more just world we are so busy putting out fires that we do not get a chance to dream about a world that works for all of us. Let's talk about real problems and imagine how we could solve them together if we did not have barriers.
3) What if I say the Wrong Thing? - Understanding microaggressions, their health impacts; and how to bring our unconscious biases to our conscious mind so we are more self-aware. How to recognize the impact we have and how to apologize authentically without making it about us. I will use personal stories and Verna Meyer's Book "What if I Say the Wrong Thing?" to guide us.
4) I Friken Love Me!- A self-love workshop that will start in February - We will make a self-love potion, write ourselves a love letter, and create a self-care menu to get ideas when things are overwhelming and mostly Celebrate our Awesomeness together.
I am not doing this for money and none will be required ..but I will accept offerings from folks and donate any proceeds to organizations that support communities who will be impacted first the next 4 years.
I will flush these out more this month. Let me know if you are interested in any of these and more details will come 🙂

10/13/2024

This Crip Camp documentary came out in 2020 but I’m watching it for the first time right now. It’s really good I recommend it for anyone wanting to learn more about disability justice. It’s on Netflix.

No one at Camp Jened could’ve imagined that those summers in the woods together would be the beginnings of a revolution. In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped...

11/03/2021

A friend from PsU could really use some support. Please consider donating 🙏🏾

My name is Amanda Amid. Due to a series of unfortunate circumstances and… Amanda Amid needs your support for Help Jane Get Off the Streets & Back on her Feet

12/08/2020

some really cute animated shorts from 2016

With films like Pocahontas, Apocalypto, Peter Pan and The Green Inferno, it’s safe to say that Hollywood has a deplorable track record when it comes to its portrayal of Indigenous Peoples. Perhaps it’s to be expected given that films tend to be produced through a Eurocentric lens. Even when prod...

11/10/2020

We need an alternative framework outside the bounds of white supremacy that gets us to shared abundance and a more just and inclusive society where your race, gender, or immigration status no longer predetermines your life outcomes. Centering Blackness allows for a completely different worldview to emerge, free from the constraints of white supremacy and patriarchy. Imagine the possibilities of all our institutions and what it could mean for all of us if we centered Blackness and asked this foundational question: How does what I’m about to create and implement intentionally seek the voices of, lift, and protect Black people? What could we build? What would it allow us to collectively see? And how might we design new rules and institutions with the core goal of enabling Black people to thrive that would also ensure that all people thrive?

Before the COVID-19 crisis, there was growing recognition that structural racism perpetuates unequal and adverse life outcomes for Black people. The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 project shed light on how Black people and their needs have been historically exploited, neglected, and undervalued in...

08/22/2020

BFSC on the Move August 14, 2020 / bfscma / No Comments Greetings BFSC Community! It’s been a jam-packed year and Black Food Sovereignty Coalition has been on the move! We kicked off 2020 with the launch of Black Futures Farm in SE Portland. Then in February, we worked with Mudbone Grown to host a...

07/28/2020

https://www.pdxmonthly.com/eat-and-drink/2020/07/a-new-bipoc-led-farmers-market-takes-root-in-portland?fbclid=IwAR3FHHDWX2qFgBohJzhqibGgiwmea0pzkaGsN91UnDdotlOa6js7gvVIK40

The Come Thru market is also an incubator for farmers and artisans who are just getting started.

07/15/2020

A group of black environmental leaders from around the world, including several leaders active in the Anacostia River watershed, have published this statement in which they demand an end to the systemic and pervasive racism within the environmental field.