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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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Monthly musings by queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, pleasure activist, organizer, library clerk + contemplative shea✨ in the catskills.

    April 2024: Love as a way of life

    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

    • 26 min
    March 2024: Relating with unfathomability

    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

    • 18 min
    February 2024: Freedom is making things

    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 

    • 20 min
    January 2024: Entering a Strength year

    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

    • 21 min
    Episode 9: In Conversation With Ki Martinez

    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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    shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/ 

    book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book 

    Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book 

    study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

    • 1 hr 7 min
    December 2023: Orienting with the needs of the collective

    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

    • 21 min

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