my living
manifesta
01 // Create
Create moments for us to collectively dream, design, write, and feel the futures we long for and love.
02 // Weave
Weave more caring and liberating ways of being, sensing, relating, and making into our lives and work.
03 // Nurture
Nurture new worlds into existence that (re)connect us with the expansive layers of ourselves, our more-than-human worlds, and our commitments.
04 // Commit
Commit to a liberatory design practice that is interdependent, grounded in the spirit of Black feminist thought, and dedicated to design being a continual, embodied process of care.
05 // Study
Study the transnational, migratory lives of Black artists and cultural workers who practice/have practiced belonging, self-determination, and solidarity.
06 // Write
Write to open us up to what can become more possible in our practice as designers and creative beings who are shaping, and being shaped by, this world.
07 // Demand
Demand that our systems of design reorient themselves toward everyday, creative acts of getting free.
08 // Remember
Remember that when we take the same rigor with our care—as we demonstrate in our creative practice and movement work—we can build the practices and worlds that will also care for us.
09 // Design
Design experiences that engage our entire being—body, mind, spirit—with a throughline of care, intimacy and liberation.
10 // Seed
Seed meaningful, creative connections and memories—across and against borderlines—that continue to show us what we’re made of and what we care about.
11 // Practice
Practice intimacy as a sensuous surrender to interdependence and kinship.