—ANTHEM—
kuwa jasiri Indomela
beauty + elle + theirs pronouns
Seed + Medicine + Birth Keeper
Founding Steward of Authentic Creations Artistic Apothecary
Artistic Apothecary is a labor of love sparked from the ones Solidarity work with the Indigenous Diné Nation. kuwa jasiri (first name) is shaped from the compassion, patient storytelling and cultural sharing of Diné Elders, and carries these ideals over to their work as a founding steward.
Beauty infiltrates able bodied, pale (white) and cis led spaces, advocating for more marginalized leadership and resource return (reparations + rematriation). Recurating foundational components such as inclusive agreements, accountability practices, affinity gatherings, and centering marginalized identities. Beauty excels at functioning as liaison to the privileged and challenging the status quo through advocacy and coaching while forming genuine relationships as a national organizer.
Storyteller + Wordsmith + Coach
Beauty engages in international writing and speaking opportunities that affirm People Of Heritage / People Of Culture / People Of The Global Majority. As a intersex, genderqueer, polysexual, Ghanaian, Cuban, Spanish, Zulu, Creole descendant beauty is immersed in cultivating their Ancestral traditions and is passionate about Seed stewardship and native Seed dispersal to offer wellness and rest to the Land, Watershed and the Original Seedkeepers.
kuwa jasiri peer studied wild foods becoming inspired to apprentice with Retired Midwife Daphne SingingTree at her home apothecary EagleTree Herbs. A graduate of the dynamic and ever evolving People Of Culture Herbal Freedom School where we center our wellness stories and medicines. Learn about beauty’s humble beginnings.
WRITINGS
→ And Still I Rise article in Seed Broadcast Journal
→ Art For Ourselves Performance Review
→ Beautifuly Brown, like me E-Zine
→ Botanical Anatomy E-Zine
→ Community Agreements co-curator for Cooperative Gardens Commission
→ Finding My Place Among The Resistors in Fierce Together Zine
→ FROM SLAVE TO COLONIZER: A COMPLEX JOURNEY OF RETURN Article in the Beauty Of Black Creation magainze.
→ Honouring The Cycles Of Life Play part of Grow Together Musical
→ Less Talk More Money Play part of Grow Together Musical
→ Oddisee & Good Compny Music Review
→ MY ANCESTRAL GARDEN EMERGES in Seed Broadcast Journal
→ Orange Seed + I am a Seed Poems in Seed Broadcast Journal
→ Remembering and Returning article in Seed Broadcast Journal
—> Reparations As Self Care Prose in Moonly Newsletter
→ Tale Of Weeping Aritcle in the Eostar | Spring 2018 EarthFirst! Journal
→ Tale of Weeping excerpt in Seed Broadcast Journal
ALBUMS + VIDEOS + PODCASTS
→ Ask a Sista Farmer Episode #26 with Soul Fire Farm
→ Bring About Equality Album 2
—> Community Zines Video by: kuwa jasiri Indomela
—> Land Reparations Breeze Block with Christin and kuwa jasiri
→ Lift Every Voice And Sing, an anthem for the descendants of African slaves
→ Secure Big Pockets Album 1
→ Trevor Hall music review
→ You Know Me Album 3
→ Artistic Apothecary Youtube Channel
REVIEWS + INTERVIEWS
→ DINÉ: OUR SURVIVAL IS BOUND TO THEIRS by: of Broken Pencil
→ First Aide To Face Adversity Zine Review Video minute 4:44-7:00
→ S.A.P. Pressing Favourite Zines of 2020 List
—> Wild Wisdom Review + package unwrapping bY: Nyx of Sea Green Zines
—> Zine Maker Interview By: ,
ART
→ BIENNIAL TEASEL illustration and poem in Seed Broadcast Journal
→ Fold a Seed Packet educational illustration in Seed Broadcast Journal
→ Nature Activity in Seed Broadcast Journal #17
→ Self Care Colouring Page in the 23rd ‘Pittsburgh’ Racial Justice Summit Zine
→ Watershed Educational illustrations in Seed Broadcast Journal
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