There has long been work to keep our communities fragmented and oppressed – they come for our language, names, and foodways. We reclaim and call forth our ancestral wisdom, practices, and beliefs.
Kindred Connections Collective
We Envision
A WORLD WHERE BIPOC TRANS, TWO-SPIRIT, GENDER NON-CONFORMING, AND QUEER FOLKS PROSPER —
FOR IT IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT.
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.
t
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.
Our Framework
Ancestral Wisdom
Creativity
Creativity keeps us alive. It is how we create networks, safe havens and sacred communication inside oppressive systems. It is how we carve out spaces, shape communities and take form to counter our erasure.
Harm Reduction
We use harm reduction to honor our humanity. It informs how we create space, hold each other, and move. It is the actuation of our commitment to abolition, compassion, knowledge sharing, truth, and accountability.
We Believe
We are the Experts in Our Experience.
Joy is Our Life Source
There is Deep Beauty & Cosmic Creativity in Each of Us.
What We Do
Connect and Sustain
Garden Group
Cultivating sustenance, beauty, and sustainability in and with community. Welcoming all persons interested in gardening regardless of experience. All supplies are provided. Meetings are hybrid (in-person/ virtual).
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 our healing, wellness, and liberation so that in our lifetime, we can witness, engage and live in flourishing, loving, and whole community.
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