Fabián

Help Fabián Attend Wapato Table Ancestral Medicine Unschool & Redistribute Surplus Funds to Community Mutual Aid UPDATE: I’ve surpassed my original fundraising goal of $2,500 and have raised $3,652 so far. Thank you to everyone who has contributed. I am increasing my fundraising goal to $6,000. There is abundance, and with this wave of your generosity and love, what we’re going to do together now is give that abundance right back to the people in our communities who need it most. I will be redistributing one portion of surplus funds back to community, specifically but not limited to: BIPOC impacted by I C 3 Local mutual aid efforts for Sick + Disabled QTBIPOC Local Indigenous elders The original goal of $2,500 only covers the bare minimum program tuition. With the other portion of the surplus funds, I also hope to pay for: Lost wages from taking time off work to attend the multi-day session Food: groceries for weekends (meals are not provided, except for snacks) Transportation: gas for driving to and from Wapato Island Accessibility: mobility aids and adaptive tools to make farm work possible Your contributions will not only make this dream possible for me, but also help to nourish and strengthen our wider communities. Thank you for your support in helping make this possible. —KEEP READING TO LEARN MORE— Hi, my name is Fabián, and I am a multiply-disabled Mexican & Italian QTPOC community organizer, care-worker, and medicine person-in-training. I am a care-taker of land, body, and spirit in my communities. I am also employed as an ODHS Homecare Worker. When I think about the land, I see myself as a caretaker that’s been made for it, and I know it’s my sacred duty to love and protect it. Tending land on Wapato Island Farm and connecting with the people on it has given me a palpable sense of hope that we can heal and transform legacies of systemic violence enacted on the land and our communities. The land offers so many gifts to us, and I’m so grateful for every opportunity I can to give back to it. My prayer every morning is for Creator to put me on a good road to be in loving relation to: the lands I am on, to my ancestors & Creator, and to my people. That’s what I want to shape my life around. (Thank you elders Ken and Holly for planting that prayer in my heart last November). Some pathways I have to put this prayer into practice beyond solely land tending are: Offering support to our bodies through organizing as a local street medic. Offering medicine to our spirits through my ancestral practice of curanderismo*. Co-creating third spaces where disabled QTBIPOC can access connection and joy. I want to keep deepening this work. That is why I’m asking for my community’s support to attend Wapato Table Ancestral Medicine Unschool as one opportunity to do that. What is Wapato Table Unschool? It is a year-long skill-sharing community program of tending to the land, more-than-human kin, and ancestral healing. We will learn ways of coexisting and trusting natural spaces to create lasting relationships, and will practice remembering, deep listening, and working with our hands to counter the separation that intellectual study produces. Wapato Table Unschool offers the opportunity for people to put their hands in the dirt, engage in ritual, and remember our ancestral roots. I will have the responsibility and blessing of growing medicine on my own 10’x 10’ plot of land on Wapato Island Farm. We will keep half of what we grow, and the other half we will be donated to the community. Why I’m asking for support: Right now I’m navigating financial precarity that makes it difficult to meet my basic needs while also sustaining this work that I love. As a trans multiply disabled Mexican-American person of color living in the U.S. right now, myself and my communities are disproportionately impacted by oppressive systems, and are excluded from meaningful access to land, natural spaces, ancestral medicine, and institutional health supports. Your support would allow me to attend this program and increase my access to all these things, in the context of long standing injustices. It is for these reasons that I am asking for my network’s support to attend Wapato Table Ancestral Medicine Unschool. I am hoping to raise $2,500. You can donate via Venmo: @FabianGuido123 or donate to this GoFundMe. Thank you for your help! Love, Fabián *curanderismo: I practice curanderismo, which is my ancestral medicine from México and it has very vast lineages but my practice is specific to México and the so called South Western US. Curanderismo is a full spectrum earth-based healing system/practice, and a core part of curanderismo is being in deep, loving relationship and service to land and the more-than-human world.