Afro August | A Legacy Of Self Preservation

Bright Blessings, Beautiful Beings, Bienvenido!

It is Afro August and we want to take a moment to celebrate with our community!

The festivities include

-actualizing by creating a culture of reparations, resource return, and self growth.

– a party. Singing, music, dancing, drumming to the rhythm of our ancient teachings.

-study. Learn more about abolitionists, liberators of all ethnicities as united we bring about change.

-Ancestral and Liberator altars. leave food, gratitude and praise offerings to those who fought for freedom.

– storytelling. Remembering our continued rebellion against enslavement, racialization, colonization, genderphobia and capitalism.

-Ritual. Take moments to fast, pray, study, connect, meditate, and be in Nature with the theme of deepening through spirituality your own liberatory work and goals.

In a moment where across industries, working folks are striking, picketing and boycotting the ongoing, normal status quo, we remind you that:
There is nothing ‘normal’ about structural hate, economic exclusion, and the insidious ways that anti-Africanness and hetero-cis-patriarchy continue to perpetuate systemic oppression in our lives and all other problematic things some have long referred to as normal.

Invest in Community Care
-at your workplace hire, educate, listen to Afro people.
-in your community hire and patron Afro owned spaces.
-in your friend group house, advocate for and affirm Afro people.
-in your mind think of the greatness of Africans.
-from your heart offer reparations and other equity resources to Afro people.

Liberation Journaling prompts for Afro Folks

What do you long for in your intersectional life?
Where do you desire to take action to achieve your best life?
What practices remind you of how precious your life is?
How can you be more grounded in self compassion and grace?
What practices align you with joy + liberation?
How can you celebrate yourself?

Adapted from Harriet’s Apothecary

Politically Incarcerated Comrades

We honour Ruchell Magee, who is the longest serving political prisoner in Amerikkka after 60 years of unjust confinement. At 82 years old, he continues to organize for the liberation of Afro people. Learn about civil rights political prisoners especially queer ones.

By writing him a letter we can ease some of the loneliness, isolation, and dehumanization he experiences. Writing prompt: Imagine our utopian society founded on liberation for all including Nature. A world where Ruchell is back with his family, peers and community. How to write to incarcerated folks?

Ruchell Magee
#A92051 #T 115
California Medical Facility
Post Office Box 2000
Vacaville, California 95696-2000

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