“I cultivate spaces where Black, Indigenous, and People of Color can reconnect, remember, restore their power, aliveness and wholeness, in how they choose to define that. Spaces where folks can come forward with the authenticity of their lives without or with less shame, fear, ostratication and harassment and more compassion, curiosity, and care”
I am deeply invested in co-creating communities that are invested in taking care of each other instead of taking advantage of each other.
Through my healing practice, I apply abolitionist and healing justice principles to transform violence and grow our individual and collective power and resilience.
My work is part of a long legacy of organizing that shifts violent systemic and generational conditions in order to build more safety, dignity, belonging and trust within and around us.
I am a 6th generation Igbo healer. I practice ancestral intuitive healing that weaves plants, somatics, queer magic, and embodied and generational transformation. My mother, Stella Utah, and the land I was raised in, Lagos, Nigeria, were my first teachers. They taught me that our bodies and the Earth are inspiring, powerful and exquisite testimonies of the roots of wellness. I grew up spending time with plants and witches making medicine to ensure migrants, poor, and chronically ill folx like myself had access to transformative practices that reignited our intuitive healing capacity. I have studied and continue to learn under master healers in Nigeria, Jamaica, Haiti and the US.
My work is rooted in healing our relationships across time, generation, lineage, and identity. We all come from colonized and violent histories that have created healing and healthcare based off of values, systems, and laws that punish, kill, and displace folx. Care has been commodified based on who is deemed “healthy” and not “healthy” and who is worthy of care based on race, gender, sexuality, disability, immigration and class. Under capitalism, people are considered material goods. People matter to the point to which they can produce, consume, or be owned. I work towards providing care that is in integrity with healing justice, disability justice, and transformative justice principles. It is important to me care is accessible in multiple ways, repairing our communities and undermining systems of oppression.
I am Queer and a survivor of multiple forms of violence. My continued healing work with myself strengthens my commitment and capacity to hold depths of suffering that are complicated and contradictory. As I hold sacred healing space for others, I am in a deep commitment to my own life long healing. I am currently in therapy every week and also receive ongoing mentorship and coaching from my teachers.
I currently live on occupied Lenape territory, also known as Brooklyn, New York, where I teach, make medicine and offer individual and collective healing spaces. I also maintain a local and distance healing practice.
Love is the most significant driving force in my life. I continue to be inspired by the moments when we say yes to loving ourselves and each other authentically. I believe it is from this place healing is born and it is from this place we feed and sustain our metamorphis towards liberation.
My ability to do this sacred work is indebted to the legacy of organizers, cultural workers, and healers who have been creating language, framework, and praxis for a loooong, looong time. I give reverence to and honor…..
Harriet Tubman
Cara Page
Aurora Levin Morales
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinah
Susan Raffo
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
Badass Visionary Healers
Rock Dove Collective
Sins Invalid
Casa de Salud
Young Women's Empowerment Project
Black Panther Party