I've sung "Taíno Tee" at Machu Picchu, Chavín de Huántar, Laguna Purhuay, and on top of a Quartz Crystal mountain top (whos name I forget) with quartz sand that made my mouth open with awe as I picked it up with my hands. All over Perú, whenever I jorneyed deeply with sacred medicine this song was sung from my heart. Pouring libations at these locations, and offering tabaccoo, coca leaves, prayers and songs to the ancestor spirits of the land, at altitudes 11,000ft or more changed something in me. It gave me the native ceremonial blessing to continue doing the work with powerful unseen energy always walking with me and protecting me. That, is the part I can share, the rest is beyond words.
But to finally get a photo with Behike of The Caney Indigenous Medicine Circle,⚡Miguel Sague⚡, who took the time to teach me this powerful song online, a song he channeled from the ancestors, I need better words than thank you. So happy am I to finally meet in person at the Smithsonian during the Taíno Symposium. It couldn't be more perfect.
Janjan katu!
I felt like I was meeting a Superhero.
#taíno #elders #ancestral #medicine #smithsonian
I asked a burning question, "Is now the right time for LGBTQI inclusion at the medicine table?" Yes, on a mic, at the Smithsonian, during the Taíno Symposium, nerves shaking, rainbow poncho worn, voice heard. And the answer from the women on the last panel, opened my heart in a way I am still processing. The answer was "You were always welcomed." 👀🙏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾 Now, what do we call a Taíno Two Spirit? What's our languaging for that? The efforts of Sankofa have been arduous. So many different tongues borrowed to learn the song of my own mixed blood.
But always do I remember to show up. Even in the wrong ceremony garb and feathers, there I was sharing my heart on behalf of those unable to speak.
THE TIME IS NOW.
#sangre #blood #taíno #maroon #jamaican #revolutionary #lgbtq #voiceoftheunderground
"Survive it" (an excerpt) my dance improvisation to Dragonfly by @nahkobear . Spending time in the lab preparing for my performance as part of @movementresearch at the Judson Church, October 8, 2018. My performance is through the Artist Of Color Council curated by @ariellerosales 💖🙏🏾👌🏾 Featuring works by:
Han Yu/True Wells Theatre, Em Papineau and Sofia Engelman, Kevon Adrian Simpson, Nicole Wolcott
Monday at 8pm
doors open at 7:45pm
Location: Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South 💖⚡No reservations and admission is free. Seating is limited, please arrive early.⚡💖 About Movement Research at Judson Church:
Movement Research presents a high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons. Movement Research at the Judson Church supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
#nosleep #dreamingwhileawake #manifesting
⚡Orisha Oshumare.⚡Orisha of the Rainbow. Orisha of both feminine and masculine energy embodied. Of light and water, givers of life. The color of the chakras. The Rainbow Serpent and the rise of Kundalini energy. African, Yoruba, Two Spirit deity, spirit guide of my path. Sankofa, we go back to get it! So that we can appreciate the guides and gatekeepers of our communities and honour the difficulty of walking around as a rainbow bodied, rainbow sipirted human being. 🌈♎🏳️🌈♎🌈
I am integrating an experience of Sankofa through medicine work, and communities that indeed I will not mention, take pictures of, or tag. Some things must be private. It's another level entirely, long awaited, long awaited, this piece of myself returned, and the power I will walk with from this day forward will NEVER be covered again.
🌈♎🏳️🌈♎🌈
I cried so much, so much, so much releasing of the mind fuck of living in a world where many are still learning to see me, and those like me as divine. I cried until I could feel appreciation for myself, and my African Blood in a way I have never felt, or cared to feel before. 🌈♎🏳️🌈♎🌈
I will stop there for now. 🌈♎🏳️🌈♎🌈
Rainbow Warriors, we are the ones we have been waiting for, the time is now. Clean water, clean energy, clean air, clean earth, it's urgent, urgent, urgent. Please do not delay. Please, do not delay. 🌈♎🏳️🌈♎🌈
Show up for your life, the one inside of you. Such is the confusion of this age, that making that distinction is even necessary. 🌈♎🏳️🌈♎🌈
A Native American Elder once said "Inside, Outside.... same side"
🌈♎🏳️🌈♎🌈
🕯Ashe-O!!!🕯 Photo: My journey to Machu Picchu, and Oshumare.
#gatekeeper #twospiritmagic #checkyourself #pride #sankofa
