Cultivating sustenance, beauty, and sustainability in and with community. No experience is needed. Let’s learn, and grow together! All supplies are provided. Meetings are hybrid (in-person/ virtual).
Kindred Connections Collective
We envision
A World Where
FOR IT IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT.
Our Framework
Ancestral Wisdom.
Creativity.
Harm Reduction.
The Crew
Vikó
they/them
Vikó is the child of Mexican immigrants. Born in the bustle of Mexico City and raised in their father’s ancestral lands, they are passionate about community health, social advocacy and justice, land based connections, music, and language. They are committed to building community connections that cultivate dignified and joyous lives.
Mirely
she/her
Mirely is an organizer and planner focused on resource redistribution. She has primarily worked in healthcare with people who are unsheltered, incarcerated, and struggling with mental health. She is a hermit who believes in the power of community.
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they/them
t is an abolitionists and harm reductionist. they’re a public health practitioner and interdisciplinary performance artist. they blend creativity and social practice to introspect, illuminate, and shift social justice/ health inequities.
We Believe
We are the Experts in Our Experience.
Joy is Our Life Source
There is Deep Beauty & Cosmic Creativity in Each of Us.
We Do
Connect and Sustain
Garden Group
Meal Sharing
Breaking bread in kinship to nourish our mind, bodies, and souls. Locations vary. All food and supplies are provided.
Holistic Wellness
Healing Circles
Practical processes for holding, mourning, claiming joy, releasing, and healing in a world on fire. Circles center Reiki, breath/bodywork, and arts-based practices facilitated by QTBIPOC practitioners.
Wellness Resources
Working with local herbalists and community health providers to offer free access to medicines, harm reduction, and care for the body and soul.
Resource Redistribution
Summer Care
Providing nature-based hydration and heat protection supplies, medicines, and other wellness and survival supplies. Distribution is typically in June. Delivery is available for those who need it.
Queer Cheer
Providing staple food boxes, winter wellness items, and mini grants. Distribution in December. Delivery is available.
Events
TDOR
Takes place on or near Trans Day of Remembrance, November 20. We gather in vigil to remember those stolen from us, to celebrate Trans being, and to promise action each day for thriveable tomorrows.
Radical Roots Retreat
A 1.5-day, 2-night retreat providing space for respite, playing in the dirt, building: skills, wellness and community, and creating and cultivating QTBIPoC Joy!
We Aim
To remove barriers to ourhealing, wellness, and liberation so that in our lifetime, we can witness, engage and live in flourishing, loving, and whole community
Media & Stories
@ CFSA
Video Interview
Kindred Connections Collective with funder, LGBTQ+ Alliance Fund.
To watch the interview, click here or on the image. Learn more about the LGBTQ+ Alliance Fund.
@ KXCI
Radio Interview
Kindred Connections Collective chat with Stephanie Engs, KXCI.
To listen to the interview, click here or on the image. Learn more about KCXCI.
More Coming Soon!
Check Back
We look forward to sharing more sharing more stories and interviews soon!
Links will be added as they become available. We hope to see you soon!
Together We Can Do Anything
Please give what you can. If you need to do less than the prefilled suggested amount, please do. If you can give more, please consider doing that. We also accept and appreciate donations of gift cards, art supplies, wellness items, and services. If you have something you’d like to donate but aren’t sure if we can use or need it, please just send us a message. If we can’t, we likely know of another community group who can. In gratitude and community, KCC
Every Offering of Support Matters
Your donations go directly into the support of our community. Donations may provide resource or wealth distribution, purchase supplies for gatherings such as healing circles, meal shares or events, or support other activities intended to build collective sustainability so the work and our community can continue cultivating and growing.
