The Liminal Lab…
My political manifesto…
1. Society does not sit under a political framework. Rather, politics is simply just another entity of a larger ecosystem. This understanding, at large, can take away systemic power from political tools of imperialism.
2. Dreams of accumulation are killing our planet. We must learn new ways of living together that do not cost us our earth. Models of harm reduction, restorative justice, and full-spectrum doula work offer examples of how patterns of accumulation can be shifted through the public sphere.
3. Every public gathering is ultimately a grief space. When we learn to gather while centering the protection of one another, we can transform suppressed grief, together, whether that grief is implicit of explicit in its naming. In this spirit, public intergenerational space is essential to any healthy society.
4. Idealism, including the building of temporal space to experience it, is a valid way to community-organize. This extends to how we practice abolition.
5. In the United States context, race has long been weaponized to prevent solidarity from being built across class, and that in building said solidarity, the systems creating division cannot be the same ones communities demand their healing from.
6. Companionship is a valid space from which to learn about paradigms of justice and offers a space to actively practice those new paradigms.
7. Financial restitution alone is not capable of healing. Policy that actually transforms must make space for reciprocity and change. In this way, one of the most powerful things we can ask from policy is space and time away from the policed, the regulated, and the decided-for-us.
8. The role of the artist is, and will always be, crucial. Specifically in denying the idea of, “It is not my responsibility.”
Facilitations, Workshops, and Trainings
I create workshops and trainings, centering topics from Restorative and Transformative Justice Practices, to Frameworks for Abolition, Cultural Organizing, and Youth Organizing, to Devised Performance, Solar-Punk Art Making, and Expressive Arts Education.
Past work has included facilitations with The American Civil Liberties Union, City-as-School, Cornell University’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Drive Change, the Department of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, Make the Road NY, MayDay Space, The Moth, The New Jersey State Bar Foundation, The New York Public Library, NYU’s Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, Office of The New York City Public Advocate, The Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Rustic Pathways, Sakhi for South Asian Women, The Urban Youth Collaborative, UC Berkeley’s Geography Department, and Youth Represent.