| I want to understand what it means to be human, together, on this planet, at this time, through moments of exquisite grief-stained joy, and gutting sadness. And, I want to do this in spaces where we all belong and are already “enough.” A tall order!
Since losing my brother to suicide when I was 15, I have thought a lot about love and belonging, and what it means to exist alongside one another in this global world under many interlacing systems and dynamics of oppression. I have facilitated art‐based workshops with the intention of honouring participants’ voices and individual stories, honed my own professional practice as a photographer, and taught at the university level always with an eye toward social justice and community-making. Being Executive Director of Art Not Shame signals a turn to creativity and the arts as a portal to these and other questions I hold about what it means to be here, together. I am blown away, time and again, by the way, the arts and creativity in community give us access to ourselves, to each other, and to ways of being and relating that are so needed right now. I come to Courage work with the desire to continually deepen a practice of grounding and wholeness, for myself and with and for others, in the service of collective liberation and radical love. I welcome this work as a vital part of my personal and professional practice in ways that I’m still growing into, but that seem to call me again and again. |
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