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Phew, where are the spaces to talk about these intersections!?
We hope to see y'all during the upcoming livestreams, to chat more about our own experiences of decolonizing our family of origins religion, the journey to reclaiming spiritual/cultural practices, and the western approaches to religious trauma.
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🚨Upcoming Episodes🚨
Ep 32 Reclaiming Black QTs Spiritual Practices: Black Atheism × Religious Trauma

Ep 33 Reclaiming Black QTs Spiritual Practices: Religious Trauma × Escaping Being A Jehovah Witness

We'd love your thoughts! See you in the chat👩🏾‍💻
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Good morn-ting yall 🗣‼️ Why is African Traditional Religion integration a taboo topic in therapist spaces?

Check out the clip👇🏾and full episode can be found on the page😉

https://bit.ly/4bm4bOj

After four years, multiple iterations, reading the creative interventions toolkit cover to cover, a funeral, and a slow + steady resurgence, I am so excited to share that zara and I are publicly ✨ launching ✨ the Safer Movements Collective () — a healing justice organization supporting organizers with nurturing our wellness + relational skills, with care for the ways our experiences of trauma, disability, and oppression impact how we relate to each other and sustain our work. we came together in 2020 having seen the same patterns of abuse playing out in different organizing spaces across time and space, and we grew together over these past 4 years to support each other in healing trauma + building our own skills for responding to conflict, harm and abuse. we started this work in our own communities, and we’re now expanding it outward.

we understand ourselves as part of a lineage of q***r and trans survivors of color organizing against state + interpersonal violence. we worked on our logo with artist - the artist who brought us the covers of “Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology” and “The Revolution Starts at Home.” we chose the symbol of the coconut palm tree because of its significance in our ancestral homelands, the US South + the Caribbean. we recognize our relationship to land as central to our work.

check out the new website on my linktree with resources on community accountability, intimate partner abuse, disability justice, and more. and stay tuuuned for info about our summer cohort + an organizer wellness retreat!

https://linktr.ee/sequoyahayes

"I'm not going to see riots and not paint them."

Faith Ringgold memories 🕊 I was the Chicago Chapter Director for the Younger Womens Taskforce.

Faith Ringgold
California (2015)
AAUW Conference

Faith Ringgold 🕊😢

Artist Talk with Bisa Butler

Open Air: Artist Talk with Bisa Butler Tune in for an in-depth conversation with acclaimed artist Bisa Butler about her celebratory quilted portraits of people of African descent.

March - April 💕Upcoming Events 💕

Intentional connetion to nature/earth breath 🤍 if you're seeing this post, take a moment to ground in the land beneath your feet. Inhale gratitude for the cycles of the seasons, and the growth and lessons that we've had from one to the next.

🤍ground yourself
🤍take a breath
🤍visualize the colors, shapes, and landscapes around you.

Thank youuuu for this collective breath🤍😉new year, new offerings coming y'all...

Sequoya is a multi-state licensed social worker, registered yoga teacher, and multidisciplinary artist. She incorporates themes and symbols from growing up in the midwest, and the influences of spending summers with her grandparents and family in the deep south, into her practice to restore the relationship between spirit and body. Sequoya explores black feminist praxis and theory through afrofuturism, mental health, and resource/content creation.She brings her art based therapeutic work to collective spaces through counseling with creatives and business owners on remembering rituals, and consulting with executive directors, nonprofits, and community offerings of personal/professional development on the dynamics and impacts of power. She consults nationally, and creates culturally rooted experiences for wellness and organizational culture shifts, through her business Red Linen Moon Wellness and Consulting.

BLACK WOMEN, A HISTORY OF CREATING OUR OWN SPACES

Black Women, a History of Creating Our Own Spaces - BWJP As we celebrate Black History Month this year, we’d like to acknowledge the many ways that Black women have had to create spaces for themselves when no one else was interested in prioritizing their unique existence in American society.

Black Feminist Futures State of the Union Watch Party

The State of the Union Address: Black Feminist Future Watch Party

The People's Forum NYC: Women, Resistance, Revolution: Panel Discussion

🎥1hr:32 mins

Women, Resistance, Revolution: Panel Discussion and Songs of Resistance This International Women’s Day, Kamli.NYC and SAAG Anthology invite you to The People’s Forum for an inspiring panel on the centrality of women in global res...

Simone Leigh considered social work, before shifting to being an artist.

Is that true? I read somewhere that before she took an internship at the National Museum of African Art, she considered social work.

If so, it makes sense to me.

"Simone Leigh is originally from Chicago. She works in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and her interests include African art and vernacular objects, performance, and feminism. Her work is concerned with the marginalization of Black women and reframes their experience as central to society. Leigh has often said that her work is focused on “Black female subjectivity,” with an interest in complex interplays between various strands of history."..
I remember seeing Simone speak at the Art Institute in Chicago years ago. Since then, I've followed her work. As a fellow Chicagoan, social worker, and social practice artist, I admire her work and that's why my offering for is centered on three of her projects.

https://linktr.ee/sequoyahayes

Rhodochrosite. Heart Chakra. Saucer Magnolia. Pink Dogwood. Redbud trees.

3 shades of pink. 3 walks. 3 different days.

Nature healing.

Frenn, are you looking for a space that truly centers spiritual therapists, counselors, and social workers who are committed to unlearning?

Reclaiming Soul Work Podcast Presents Unlearning Circles 2024. At Unlearning Circles, we're flipping the script by integrating culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and decolonized spiritual practices into your work, creating spaces that truly fit. Our focus is on culturally rooted, trauma-informed spiritual practices and interventions often overlooked by Western therapy, challenging dominant narratives and uplifting diverse perspectives.

Three dope workshops that are led by amazing spiritual practitioners and therapists committed to unlearning and decolonizing our practices. These workshops are going to help you and shift your thinking that will root you into your unlearning practices in a real and practical way.

Frennnsss🥳🥳 Happy Social Work Month + Black Social Work Week‼️

Biany and I are really excited about to chat with y'all. We couldn't pin down exactly what we wanted to talk about for our live chat on Tuesday.

Here is the link to the youtube page so y'all can rewatch our recommendations:

https://bit.ly/3CfVaY6

We were thinking about:
🗨Reminding y'all to go back and rewatch our episodes, so make some recommendations on past episodes
🗨Being Black q***r social workers during a time of the most anti trans bills and advocacy from a social work perspective
🗨Hot topics: therapist, social work edition (interstate compact updates, social workers roles during genocide, etc..

🚀Also, don't forget about our Unlearning Circles live on Friday, 3.8 that we have coming up with ***r to chat about their mini lesson.

🚀Register for our Unlearning Circles frenn, it's gonna be great 😉

All the information can be found on our website.

4️⃣Storytelling + Narrative 👉🏾 10 Black Feminist Values Depicted in Art ..

It wouldn't be fitting if I didn't share a story💬Facebook shared a memory today from March 5th, 2018. I was working at the UIC Women Leadership and Resource Center. This is where I worked with some ah-mazing folks that I still hold dear to my heart and organizing

In addition to hearing artist talk at Gallery 400 on campus, I worked at WLRC during the time when R. Kelly was supposed to perform on campus. Along with other community members support, the director of the center wrote a statement and a petition of support circulated to ensure that he didn't perform. ..
Circling back to Fabiola's artist talk, I had never seen black women depicted in this way. Prior to the period pieces that we've seen like Queen Charlotte, etc, Fabiola's work highlighted black women in a time that usually tries erase our existence. Not only are we situated in this time, but we are beautifully dressed, regal, and moisturized.

I don't remember the name of this piece, or the narrative surrounding her process, but I remember how I felt.

I was wide eyed, and consumed in the story. If you've never seen any of her work, it's worth a google search at least. Find out if she's showing in your city too...

🚀My next black feminist and art event is coming up. Sign up y'all, it's gonna be goodt🙃 info at the link in bye-ohhhh.

https://linktr.ee/sequoyahayes..

Reciprocity breath 🤍 if you're seeing this post, take a moment to ground in yourself and relationships that honor equal exchange of care.

🤍ground yourself
🤍take a breath
🤍visualize the equal exchange between yourself and others, you receiving the care that you provide, and it flowing back to you with gratitude and ease.

Thank youuuu for this collective breath🤍😉new year, new offerings coming y'all...
Sequoya is a multi-state licensed social worker, registered yoga teacher, and multidisciplinary artist. She incorporates themes and symbols from growing up in the midwest, and the influences of spending summers with her grandparents and family in the deep south, into her practice to restore the relationship between spirit and body. Sequoya explores black feminist praxis and theory through afrofuturism, mental health, and resource/content creation.She brings her art based therapeutic work to collective spaces through counseling with creatives and business owners on remembering rituals, and consulting with executive directors, nonprofits, and community offerings of personal/professional development on the dynamics and impacts of power. She consults nationally, and creates culturally rooted experiences for wellness and organizational culture shifts, through her business Red Linen Moon Wellness and Consulting.

Connect and check out the resources:
https://linktr.ee/sequoyahayes

Hey y'all‼️I wanted to share our upcoming live topic. We are talking about Bibliotherapy as a therapeutic intervention, and would love for you to join us...
We are excited to chat more with Em on questions like this tomorrow. Make sure y'all following us on IG because we are going live on Saturday morning to chop it up on this topic...
Reclaiming Soul Work Podcast is hosted by two Black q***r femme Social Workers.

Morn-ting.

The Great Migration 👉🏾 I'm always interested in conversations on this time period, especially from an intergenerational trauma and mental health aspect. Much of Black History centere on the Civil Rights Movement, but this time period, has interesting ripple effects that I feel are overlooked.

Specifically, the ways that Black folxs built collective care and support networks to support themselves, others, and family members to migrate from the south to the north.

My mom talks about leaving Selma, Alabama and migrating to Chicago, IL and how she supported her brothers and sisters that wanted to come from the south. I know we all have similar stories...
🗨Recommendations🗨

📚"A Movement in Every Direction Legacies of the Great Migration" is a book where "contemporary artists and writers share reflections on the Great Migration and its influence on the Black experience."

🎥South to Black Power is a documentary film where Charles Blow talks to others about the Great Migration, reverse migration, and the need for folxs to shift political power back to the south...

Social justice + advocacy 👉🏾10 black feminist values depicted in art

There is soo much going on in the world right now, and part of not looking away, is creating. Some artists center their art on the social and political landscape of their communities.

Phew chile, and right now, it's plenty to channel that creative energy towards. Art is also a practice in memory archiving, which to me, is also adjacent to liberation psychology.

Art holds the stories ans history that eventually, some will try to erase, minimize, forget.
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Slide one]social justice +advocacy definition
Slide two]Faith Ringgold "I'm not going to see riots and not paint them"
Slide three/four/five]snippets from my zine "Exits + Entrances: Reflections from A Black Q***r Body in Alaska"
Slide six]Event flyer..

Ancestral veneration breath 🤍 if you're seeing this post, take a moment to honor your ancestors.

Ancestors meaning, whomever (family, guides, folxs that you appreciate their work) or whatever (trees, land, water, cosmos, etc) that you call on for guidance, unconditional love, and strength.

🤍ground yourself
🤍take a breath
🤍visualize them, say their names, take a moment to acknowledge.

Thank youuuu for this collective breath🤍😉new year, new offerings coming y'all.

Sister Outsider Book Cover Study + Meditation for Audre Lorde's 90th birthday ..
I had to sit with my thoughts after the Audre Lorde Read A Thon that was co organized and sponsored by and from yesterday. Such a beautiful, intergenerational, and thoughtful gathering! From 1p - 5p I listened to folxs read her writing, share reflections about how her work inspired them, and even some that had met her in real life, shared their memories of the first and last time that saw her. ..
📚Y'all know I like book cover art. So, while I listened to folxs read and share, I pulled up her books and the different iterations of cover art. I decided to share Sister Outsider because this is one of my favorite quotes.

🗨"Nothing I accept about myself can make you diminsh me." Audre Lorde ~ Sister Outsider

🤍Thank you to for her reading. It was soo nourishing to hear a story about Audre's father and get a glimpse into their relationship. This resonated soo much because of my art practice and how it's dedicated to my father.

💬Brief thoughts on the cover: They are all so different to me and stir different thoughts and emotions. I think the green one resonates the most for me. I like the abstract aspect of it. The blue one is the first edition cover. The burgundy one is my least favorite, even though it has this richness to it.

🗨Who comes to mind for you? There are soo many artists and mediums that this may resonate for you. I was thinking about the show "Queen Sugar" and how media has been influential to tell the story of Black women. Now, this one has lots of intersections but the women in this show, their stories had range, and it was soo authentic to me. Since the show's final season I haven't seen too many references but I'm currently watching it.

📺Did you watch Queen Sugar? What you think about the story? Drop it in the comments and let me know.

‼️I'm tussling with the algorithm, so puh-leeze interact with this post if you see it.

1️⃣Representation + Identity > 10 Black Feminist Values Depicted in Art

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Make sure that you're following so that you can keep up with the series. Every few days I will drop another value and example. ..

Sign up for the event at tinyurl.com/black-feminist-values-in-art

I'm adding North Carolina to the services list y'all. Red Linen Moon Wellness and Consulting is pleased to announce that in addition to being licensed in Indiana and Colorado, we can start taking therapy clients in North Carolina‼️

So, if you're looking for a therapist that is liberation and black feminist centered, that specializes in PTSD, depression, LGBTQIA issues, life transitions, work/balance, psychedelic integration, and racial trauma. We ready for yah‼️

Schedule a free 30 minute consult to check in on needs, rates, and alignment🙃

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Day Two: Rosa Parks, Eartha Kitt and Queen Latifah are a few of the black women that are highlighted in "The Yoga History Book That Chronicles Black Women’s Journey to Inner Peace"

This Yoga History Book Chronicles Black Women's Journey to Inner Peace Black history and yoga history meet in a new book by Dr. Stephanie Evans.

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