Queering Systems Change, Somatics & Deep Time
This work is about the fabric of our existence, our resistance, our resilience. It asks us to radically doubt our doubt.
Ya know, I am not an everyday post-er about my inner workings. My work in this world, SYSTEMS CHANGE & HEALING for queer folks requires TREMENDOUS presence, intention & responsiveness from me. It is both right brain/left brain, creative/pragmatic, fractal/methodical work that is a PERFECT fit for my neurotype, and quite at odds with the societal expectations of constant online engagement. I. Just. Can’t. And that’s ok…
I just wanna say, here at the end of the year, after 9 months in this role... my project co-lead at SQSH, Ishmaiah Moore and I have created something truly extraordinary. A 13-month, Systems Change Fellowship that embeds SOMATICS, culturally-adaptive, identity-affirming, personally relevant, spiritually & community impactful engagement at its core. At its root. As the whole foundation.
It is not work that is easily seen, much less understood on the surface. It doesn’t work like that ON PURPOSE.
This work is about the fabric of our existence, our resistance, our resilience. It asks us to radically doubt our doubt.
I am changed already, just by the 9 months so far putting it together. I, and we, will continue to change as we move into the actual Fellowship phase (look out for recruitment coming early Feb ‘25… this Fellowship is PAID & SUPPORTED y’all).
What I really want to say with this timeline post, is the algorithm isn’t setup to visibilize this deep, root system work. And I’m easing more into embodying my “okness” with that. EVERY DAY, brilliant, innovative things emerge. Conversations that break even queer-leftist molds that inspire & invite me to stay connected to this work for the rest of my years on this planet. I’m easing into being more ok as one of the inner cogs… I am not on the surface of time, adapting my being to the hustled movements of the second/minute/hour hands fluttering around the clock. My deep, impactful movements on the inside make the whole damn clock go around. And being in collaboration with others, with my project co-lead, with our mentor, with our project partners such as Forward Through Ferguson, and eventually with our recruited Fellows too means WE ARE NAVIGATING THESE TIMES TOGETHER. To shift the whole damn time into a new paradigm centered on REGENERATIVE resourcing, collectivized care, and the deep structuring we will need for the World-Building ours, and future generations are tasked to do.
Is it easy? No.
Is it worth it? A thousand times yes.
Right now, I’m damn fucking proud of what we have innovated in just 9 short months, and as I round out the end of my working-year & head into a Solstice, spiritual retreat (cozy at home & sparse from media & do-shit vibes), I am hella inspired to continue this work with renewed wonder & passion for being a different kind of healing that the world needs right now.
And I am ecstatic that I don’t have to do it alone.
#WEKEEPUSSAFE
In Solidarity,
-Deanna Sophia Danger-