Who I Am
I am a Latinx femme, activist, mud builder, devoted to Afro Brazilian Spiritual practices, and also deeply devoted to liberation. I am here to support the regeneration of culture, by listening, remembering, connecting, and inspiring.
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I was born and raised in Brazil, and in my experience of family and togetherness, we stay committed to each other, for better or for worse. When I first moved to the United States, I was allured by the possibility of so much independence. I had a lot to learn, and still do. Today I am mostly interested in weaving myself back together with community and with the web of life. I believe that for true liberation, we need inter-dependence. I am here for the revolution, and I am bringing the tools I have to create beauty and resiliency in our communities. We can all do that, and we need each other. None of us have the full answer, but we each carry an important piece of the puzzle.
In one of my initiations, I lived in the forest, for years, with no running water or electricity. Through listening to the trees, the wind, and the soil, I awakened parts of myself that were dormant. Sometimes I would weep for days, feeling the pain of the Earth, and other times, it would feel like ecstasy to experience such deep belonging through that sacred grief.
I am in service to beauty, and I believe we all know what beauty is. War is not beautiful, a polluted waterway is not beautiful, a landfill is not beautiful. Anything that is not beauty is the disruption of the organic flow of life energy that moves through all.
My commitment
We have all experienced significant cultural disruption through colonization, displacement, modernization and other forces. As a culture regenerator, I am a bridge, and I am here to remember that we are not static. Our culture is living and breathing, and I am committed to being with it all, until the end of times
