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Growing more capable and more alive in community is my obsession.
I love bringing people together to connect, exchange, and grow our collective power — especially when music, food and nerdy conversations are involved.
I write about all these topics (and more) on my personal newsletter, 💌 joycast 💌.
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I consider myself an artist, whose media are (for example) interpersonal ways of relating, relational infrastructures and procedures. Put simply: the art of bringing people together to do cool things that help us all get free.
I’m interested in dreaming new realities and practicing utopias with others who believe ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE.
My work right now (2025) is inspired especially by these ideas:
My intention: I want to work together with values-aligned folks to build something better for all of us. I am committed to cultivating joy in our movements, by helping folks collaborate with more care and compassion as we move together towards liberation.
Key values I hold myself accountable to:
My work is only possible because of the leagues of activists, community organizers, teachers, somatic practitioners, spiritual leaders, mediators, facilitators, family-builders and others who have come before me. This is why I like to share a resource sheets for every workshop I offer — so that participants have the chance to continue their own daily (un)learning from those who have inspired and taught me.
I would like to express my gratitude to the lands I have lived and traveled, to all those Black, Indigenous and POC women and genderqueer people, disabled and sick and crazy folks, working and poverty class people, people of non-normative body types or abilities, incarcerated and detained people, “neurodivergent” people, queer and trans folks, sex workers, unhoused folks, people without passports or residents status, and everyone who lives and cares for each other at the margins of our societies, who have shared their wisdom and experiences to shape new worlds — my own worlds included.
My work is created with deepest gratitude to many elders and collaborators, including but certainly not limited to: the members/friends/alumni of Women in Exile e.V., Combahee River Collective, Kes Otter Lieffe, jarral Boyd, Care (Elia Diane Fushi Bekene), bell hooks, DJ Marcelle, Camille Sapara Barton, Staci Haines, adrienne maree brown, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Mariame Kaba, Mia Mingus, Charlene Carruthers, Margaret Killjoy, carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, as well as everyone I’ve met through my work at aequa and in the gorgeous messiness of communal and collective spaces.
As a holder of many spaces, I strive to foster braver space that operate with these mindsets.
I can’t promise that I will always get it right, but I can promise to do my very best to keep my ears and heart open, to listen actively to those I hold space for and with, to be accountable when sh*t goes wrong, and to continuously seek for more ways to share the power and privilege I have access to, sustainably and responsibly.
I am guided by my commitment to these ethics and mindsets.
Liberation for all
”No one of us can be free until everybody is free.” - Maya Angelou. I believe in the power of collective action and coalition-building to shifts norms and change worlds, and reject the neoliberal notion that “a rising tide lifts all boats”.
Transformative justice
We are born into oppressive systems that we do not want to recreate through our work for social change, so we use design to reshape our systems to influence behaviors of ourselves, those we work with, and those we stand in solidarity with. We look for systemic and collective solutions for systemic issues, working to see how we can address roots of issues rather than only depend on individual players to be the change they want to see. We cultivate hope through our commitments to each other, by coming back to the table of friendship together, again and again.