Programs

illustration by Luna Nguyen shows our community in the kitchen, offering care, at the market, in the streets and in rest! Kujichagulia means self determination in kiswahili.

“You are SO INCREDIBLY KIND. I am honored and humbled by your generosity. I will absolutely share your gifts with my community, and uplift yalls work. doyu sgi boo (thank you sooo much).”
– Dominique Pearson (they/them), Herbalist & Cooperative Food Educator

Gender Affirming Programming:

Full Spectrum Spiritual Birthwork
African Heritage Garden
Big Mountain Gardening Network (Indigenous Solidarity)
Moonly Connect publication
Incarcerated + Shut-In Pen Pals
Resource Return (Reparations/Rematriation/Repatriation)
Return Trips To Ancestral Lands
Leadership Summit
Nia Solidarity Stipends – Nia means Purpose in Kiswahili. Cash Stipends distributed upon request
Spiritual Coaching: parenting or transforming Self

Online Offerings: Zine Publishing, Nourishment At Home Tutorial Videos + Liberation Meditations, Grow Together Vignette Musical

A poster designed by youth of colour that reads in bold YOUTH OF COLOR with a thick line under it. Below that is two sections on reads "Don't judge a book by it's color" and the other lists fun, awesome, safe place, place to trust, kind people, and never get judged. — A poster designed by/for youth of culture!

Before this collective was formed, from 2007 to 2014, Founding Steward kuwa jasiri (beauty) provided hot meals to houseless, previously incarcerated, and low-income folks in the park, prioritizing raw salads and whole food distribution. In 2009, beauty began fostering a relationship with Nature specifically harvesting Seeds; using the each one, teach one, legacy methodology.

Since 2011, our BY US, FOR US grassroots initiative resourced by Accomplice engagement aides and advocates for low-income, genderqueer, People Of Culture.

Originally our focus was on free herbal clinics and Indigenous Solidarity, which grew to rural Seed libraries in 2013 and then wildland and watershed restoration in 2016, which is now sprouting into social advocacy. Over the last decade, our focus is collective care, spiritual wellness, cultural revitalization, intersectional diversity, and play. In 2021, we introduced rest and resource return into our framework. In 2023, we return to our origins of building relationships on the reservation and land reparations. Our dream for 2024 is intergenerational family growth.

Genderqueer People Of Culture can take part in any of our programs for free or trade, pay what you can by making a request. For updates on our current happenings keep up with our Moonly Connect publication.
Everyone else consider donating to our work.

“We were able to buy 50 bales of hay from another Indigenous Diné Women for my Mother. Last we were able to buy such a large quantity of hay was 20 years ago. Thanks to you all, family members and other community aide we were able to live our dreams. This hay will last us a long while.” – Colleen Biakeddy, Indigenous Diné Women, Nia Solidarity Stipend

Free food pantry
Lemon Balm and Rosemary
Herbs on a plant. Rose, Mint, Motherwort, Poleo, Oat Straw, Chamomile
A potluck spread featuring cultural foods and community member with a shirt that reads Destroy white supremacy
kuwa jasiri in Malawi posing with 6 villagers on an Ancestral Return Trip
HOliday Letters to inmates
Items of a Care Package. Food, herbal medicine, toys, art, journals, hygiene, and majikal tools.
9 folks pose during a Leaders Networking Luncheon against a yellowish wall.
9 Afro folks mainly with long sleeve outfits, sit against a wall mural.
Maio (they)