Fund Lux Pollinating the Co-Liberatory Movement

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Community - I need your help! I am taking a big leap of faith in this next chapter of life for both my personal wellness and my commitment to serving collective liberation.

Please consider donating as much as you can to support me in building out a trailer to live in so I can continue to easily offer my gifts to the world wherever I go!

About me and my vision:

As one of my stickers says, “my life is my activism.” What I mean by this is that my ‘activism’ is not something separate that I do; rather, my activism shows up in every aspect of my daily life - how I spend my money and time, how I relate to the more-than-human world, how I communicate in my relationships, how I show up in community, and how I share my gifts.

For those who don’t know me, I am a queer, non-binary conflict mediator, consent educator, workshop facilitator, organizational consultant, and somatic coach with a focus on community building and cultural change. For years, I have been deeply studying communication, group decision-making, power dynamics, trauma-aware conflict transformation, and somatic healing to be able to support healers and change-makers in shifting culture through what we create and how we organize.

Over the last 2 and a half years, I have held at least 20 workshops and trainings, mediated for countless conflicts, co-organized monthly community song events and anti-racism circles, and cultivated community around values of liberation, healing, and equity. I have found that the place we most often get stuck in our healing-centered communities is in our interpersonal relationships. Without the skills to communicate clearly, work through conflict, heal from harm, and navigate differences and power dynamics, some of our most needed work and projects can easily fall apart. That is why I am dedicating my life to supporting liberation-centered individuals and communities in cultivating relational skills. And in this next chapter of my life and my service, I am being called to take my work on the road so I can spread this medicine further.

I am doing this by building out a trailer so I can have a home wherever I go. As soon as I set my sights on this vision, the perfect trailer came to me - a 5x9 foot cargo trailer that already has insulation, flooring, and electrical. Over the next couple months, I will be taking on a project unlike anything I’ve ever done - building out the inside of the trailer with a small kitchen, bed, and storage. I am also considering how my build can support community, and as part of embodying this intention I’ll put a bulletin board inside my door for people to share their offerings on, and I’ll have a small treasure chest of free things to gift along the way.

Why am I raising money to build out a trailer?

To better serve this healing movement. I know that what I offer is in service of a larger vision of interpersonal and cultural healing that many of us are giving our lives to. As I travel between value-aligned communities, I will work to weave networks of resilience and cross-pollinate ideas and visions that support us all in creating the world we long for.

To give and receive my gifts more freely. Living in a home that I own will help me lower my baseline expenses and reduce the pressures of capitalism so I can serve from a place of inspiration and organic emergence. Along my journeys, I expect to continue to host workshops, facilitate and consult for intentional communities, and offer conflict mediation or somatic healing sessions, both online and in-person, with lower baseline costs. I am excited to be able to do more trades and offer free services when needed.

To lean into my creativity. In the last couple of years, I have been cultivating my professional presence and offerings as a healer and facilitator. However, there are many other sides to me - I am also into creative reuse, freestyling, community singing, and clowning/performance. With more time and openness in this next chapter, I will be able to more easily explore these parts of me and nurture culture change in all its forms.

To support my overall wellness. As a self-employed community-builder living in the city, it can be challenging to make time to be with the trees, tend to my body, and re-center in silence and stillness. I am excited for this next chapter to help me center my wellness even more deeply with more free time to spend nurturing my relationship with myself and being present with the natural world.

This next step in my journey is a big one, and I cannot do this alone. In order to make this dream a reality, I need your help.

My Financial Situation:

I have been self-employed with part-time contracts to stabilize my income for the past 3 years. These years have been incredibly rich in purpose and meaning, but making enough money to meet my needs has been a struggle. With all that I have poured into my work, I am left with no savings and some credit card debt. The financial freedom that building and owning my own home will offer me is huge, and in order to get there, I need help investing in this dream.

The trailer itself costs $4,500, I expect to spend at least $1,500 on the build for materials and space rental, and I added a little extra to my goal to cover the loss of work as I focus on this project.

Things I need for this project besides money:

A garage I can build out of, ideally near my place in the Central District
A small but deep stainless steel sink
A yeti-style cooler
Scrap plywood
Pre-made shelving/cabinetry I could repurpose
Frameless mirror(s)
Folks willing to help with the build-out that will likely be taking place on Vashon from mid-October through the beginning of December
Connections to communities where I can park my trailer (ideally for up to 2 weeks at a time), mostly along the West Coast and in the Southwest

I am so deeply grateful for whatever you can give, financial or otherwise, to support my dreams and the greater co-liberatory work I am in service to.