COMMUNITY IS A VERB
THIS SITE EXISTS AS A KIND OF TRELLIS IN A GARDEN, AS THE BEGINNING SUPPORTS NECESSARY TO LET THE VINES GROW TALL AND RUN DEEPLY INTO THE SOIL OF SHARED UNDERSTANDING.
THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER FOR FINDING COMMON GROUND AND CROSS-POLLINATION AS NEW AND ANCESTRAL TECHNOLOGIES RISE TO THE SURFACE.
THIS WORK, PURPOSE, AND PLAY IS BASED ON BUILDING SMALL NETWORKS OF PEOPLE AT LOCAL SCALES FOR:
+COMMUNITY
+COMMONS AMENITIES
+ARTS & EDUCATION
+CARE
+AMENDS + REPAIR
+STEWARDSHIP
+CIRCULARITY (C2C)
+CULTURAL SOVEREIGNTY*
+ROOTED INNOVATION
THIS WORK IS A RESOURCE FOR BUILDING NEW PROCESSES OF DYNAMIC AND WHOLE CARE. INSPIRED BY A MATRIARCHAL GAZE FROM WITHIN THE SYMBIOCENE. IN OTHER WORDS…
WHAT IF A COMMUNITY WAS STRUCTURED LIKE THE POWER OF A BLACK / INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHER: WITH WISDOM, KINDNESS, AND RESOURCES GOING TO THE FAMILY?
A GRANDMOTHER IS A POWERFUL TEMPLATE FOR THE DYNAMICS OF COLLECTIVE EVOLUTION - AND THE EVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED.
* Cultural sovereignty means self-determination of a community to shape the flows of equity, knowledge, value, care, wisdom, and accountability in relationship to people and place as it may be ancestral and/or adaptive. This usually exists in contrast to inherited or adjacent forms of colonial culture which is historically exploitative, harmful, and extractive to all forms of life and beingness.
C O N N E C T :
k i n f o l k c o l l a b @ p r o t o n . m e
{ where / what / who }
California: central coast within Chumash territories
collaboration, consultation, networks
“We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.”
-Grace Lee Boggs
