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Monthly musings by queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, pleasure activist, organizer, library clerk + contemplative shea✨ in the catskills.
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April 2024: Love as a way of life
In this episode:
blog post for this episode
Online Tarot Circles
Tarot 101 + what people are saying about it
In-Person Tarot Circle
Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
My books are open book with me thru calendly
Toi Derricotte
co-resting cohorts with Nina Hatfield
In Search of the Goddess art show
Toni Cade Bambara
Dr. Mohammed Subeth on MSNBC
@areejakoud’s Silent Prayer
Hammer & Hope’s Spring 2024 issue about Palestin
Caroline Bird
Sweet Tea With Emily Dickinson by Sybil Rosen
UK fiber + embroidery artist Nature Nurture + UK typewriter artist James Cook
Claire Foy 👑
a conversation with a woman who lacks an internal monologue
Olayemi Olurin giving this asshole the what-for
Louise Thompson & the First March On Washington via Prisonculture’s substack
A woman lost her dog for 5 days
eclipse season vibes
The Gentle Tarot
more about Yukon here + a short video about him
more about Kevin here -
March 2024: Relating with unfathomability
In this episode:
blog post for this offering (cat picture!)
Online Tarot Circles
In-Person Tarot Circle
Using Tarot to Work With the Dead
Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
My books are open + it’s easy to book thru calendly
Return to the Root Retreat
The Grief Room
I made some zines
Loretta Ross
More of this energy in 2024
Artist Nick Cave on Loss, Yearning, Transcendence
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, her convo with James Baldwin here, + this
Reimagining Life With Friendship at the Center via Anne Helen Petersen’s Culture Study substack”
Prison Art: Drawing Is an Outlet and Source of Income for Incarcerated People, an op-ed by Juan Hernandez
Born at the Right Time by Natalie Labriola
feline blessings
Jenny Holzer
78 Faces of Power
Cameron Awkward-Rich; hear him read it here -
February 2024: Freedom is making things
In this episode:
blog post for this episode (it’s where the kitty pic lives!)
Online Tarot Circles
Asking Good Questions + what people have said about the experience
still room to join the Study Tarot Series cohorts-in-progress
My books are open + it’s easy to book thru calendly
George Washington Carver
Jonathan Louis Dent
Suzette Clough’s online classes + Visual Medicine Facilitator Training
you can apply here for a penpal thru the Prison Solidarity Project
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Elena Solano + I are collaborating on a playlist
Downton Abbey
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism study group is reading the Counterinsurgency Field Manual Email Jared to join + make a donation if you ca
Dana Piazza’s artwork
The Feminist on Cellblock Y
Alice Sparkly Kat’s Astro Poem Generator + their Astro-Kat’s offering
Mariame Kaba’s newsletter + the People’s Pottery Project
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
SURJ
the Squad
Christofascist far-right state their goals plainly
SURJ’s strategy for 2024 -
January 2024: Entering a Strength year
In this episode:
blog post for this episode
Tarot 101 + what people are saying about it
Online Tarot Circles
room to join Study Tarot Series cohorts underway
My books are open + it’s easy to book with me thru calendly
@babadookspinoza
the grief room + Elena Solano on Instagram or TikTok
more writing about tarot
In Conversation with Ki Martinez
Jonathan Louis Dent
Richard Tinkler
An article about female reindeer
The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Betty Martin on the For The Wild podcast
a beautiful memorial to Palestinian poet + professor Dr. Refaat Alareer,his poem read by actor Brian Cox + his Tedx Talk Stories Make Us
Some skills I think we need get good at… from Karla Monterroso @karlitaliliana
Laetitia Barbier
Kate Baer -
Episode 9: In Conversation With Ki Martinez
Today I have the great good fortune of being in conversation with Ki Martinez. Ki received their training in the UK at the Sea School of Embodiment in 2020, becoming a Certified Embodiment Coach as well as a Certified Sexological Bodyworker. Ki is a member of the worldwide Association for Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB). Today, they specialize in working with growth-oriented people of all genders, erotic explorers, creatives, helping professionals, adults with anxiety, + folks suffering from the effects of trauma.
Ki is also a Somatic Anti-Oppression Practitioner + Educator, teaching courses on Somatics for Social Justice with Both/And Collective.
Prior to this work, Ki was a community organizer + facilitator in leadership development. Their focus was coaching social change makers + creatives looking to lead value-driven lives. Even in that work, they encountered the importance of embodiment + somatic practice for creating real change.
Ki holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Loyola University in Chicago.
Follow Ki’s work on IG:
@pleasureactive
@bothandcollective
Websites & Newsletters:
embodiedki.com
https://both-and.org
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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY
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December 2023: Orienting with the needs of the collective
Blog post for this offering (with kitty pic!)
a little perspective
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In this episode:
Using Tarot to Work with the Dead
Online Tarot Circles
room to join Study Tarot Series cohorts-in-progres
Tarot #inthesetimes newsletter signup
My books are open it’s easy to book thru calendly
Guérin Asante
Phoenicia Library
Phoenicia Food Pantry
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) + their new National Member program
Truthout
Gerti Schoen’s online course
The Dharma Tarot
Móri, a gifted esotericist
disrupt business as usual, protect forests + move decision-makers to action
the organizers who helped Andy Beshear win re-election in Kentucky
Beth Howard’s forthcoming memoir, manifesto, + how-to organizing manual Rednecks for Black Lives
Michelle Alexander in Hammer & Hope
Five Broken Cameras
Can We Imagine Ourselves Surviving Together?
Li: Dynamic Form in Nature by David Wade
Martha Crawford