CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT

We stand in technicolor contrast to destructive, extractive, and violent ways of being that are hypernormalized in the white supremacist heteropatriarchal dominant social order. We follow Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to be “creatively maladjusted” to a sick society, to refuse to normalize inequality, to expose injustice, and to be insatiable in our dedication to the“glittering daybreak of freedom and justice”. We seek to normalize the miraculous in public toward the revolutionary level of transformation needed for real liberation. We are loyal to tending the spark of collective illumination on this path.

SLOW + INTENTIONAL

We move with thoughtfulness and awareness to ensure trust and safety at every step. We prioritize process over outcomes to scale appropriately so that this effort can live out its transformative potential at a pace that serves integrity. We do not rush. We do not take for granted how much unlearning and re-learning there is to do to decolonize ourselves and our world from centuries of life under oppression. To truly remediate physical mental, emotional, psychic, and spiritual harms and steward liberated, thriving ways of being, we take the time it takes. “The times are urgent, let us slow down.”*

*visionary teacher Bayo Akomolafe

BELONGING ALWAYS, ALL WAYS

We don’t settle for band-aid solutions that distract us from deep and real healing. We go to the root. By engaging responsibly, accountably, and mutually we actively repair past and persistent traumas caused by separation, hierarchy, colonization and other forms of oppression through every action we take. We see this as a simultaneous healing of pervasive injustice, as well as a seeding and expanding of long-suppressed self and collective determination. This a generous and constant invitation into vitality and belonging,