South Africa was the right place for this work. 🌍✊🏾
Apartheid in South Africa was one expression. Enslavement and Black codes in the U.S. were another. Colonization across the globe follows the same pattern. Different locations. Same architecture.
@socialjusticeagency
#SomaticLiberation
10.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Healing is not magic.
Healing is tending to the truth of this moment and learning how to use it as fuel for your liberation. 🫀
Deep gratitude to @nativelandpod for convening this space.
Watch the full Minneapolis Town Hall here:
bit.ly/4rhi60n
#TheQuakingOfAmerica
#SomaticLiberation
08.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What if there are no “better angels”? What if this is all they got for us?
Thank you @nativelandpod for making room for a conversation that doesn’t flinch.
Watch the full town hall:
bit.ly/4rhi60n
More resources:
bit.ly/4bqteDJ
#StayHuman #SomaticLiberation #CollectiveCare #EmbodiedTruth
04.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Healing is tending to what is happening around you and in your body and learning to use it as fuel for your liberation. 🔥⛽️
Grateful to @nativelandpod for holding the line of truth.
Watch the full town hall here:
bit.ly/4rhi60n
Grounding practices + guidance:
bit.ly/4bqteDJ
#SomaticLiberation
03.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We’re being asked right now: who are we going to be in the face of tyranny?
That’s the healing. ⚠️🧭
Deep appreciation to @nativelandpod.bsky.social for convening courageous voices.
Full video: bit.ly/4rhi60n
Explore bit.ly/4bqteDJ for practices to help meet this moment.
#SomaticLiberation
02.02.2026 15:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
MN journalist Georgia Fort was arrested for filming and reporting.
TODAY (CT) — Minneapolis
11:00 AM press conference
1:00 PM Free G rally
1:30 PM court hearing
📍 Federal Courthouse (downtown)
Please share.
#ProtectJournalists #FreeGeorgiaFort #PeoplePower #NoMoreSilence
quakingofamerica.com
30.01.2026 17:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
You get to be angry.
And you get to figure out how you turn toward each other, as opposed to on each other. 🔥🖤
Follow @nativelandpod + watch the full town hall here: bit.ly/4rhi60n
Visit bit.ly/4bqteDJ for practices to stay human in this moment.
#TheQuakingOfAmerica #SomaticLiberation
29.01.2026 23:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It’s been tough. It’s going to get tougher.
If you’re living in a visibly melanated body in this country and feeling it in your nervous system, you’re not imagining it. You’re not crazy.
#TheQuakingOfAmerica
centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
19.01.2026 18:07 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
From my time in South Africa 🇿🇦
Black people, you are not crazy. What you feel is real. You are beautiful, and you are not defective.
This closing moment from my Weekend Breakfast conversation still holds true.
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
#BlackHealing #SomaticAbolitionism
24.11.2025 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In South Africa I spoke about how trauma doesn’t just live in memory. It lives in the body.
Somatic abolitionism means tending to the body so we can break the pattern for the generations that follow.
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
18.11.2025 22:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jamaica has held so many of us. Now we give that care back.
Support Valentino’s Dream Team as they rebuild after Hurricane Melissa.
💫 www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#ReciprocalCare #RebuildTogether
13.11.2025 00:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After the storm, the body looks for ground.
Help Valentino and his team rebuild homes and safety after Hurricane Melissa.
🤎 Give here: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#CareAsPractice #CommunityHealing
08.11.2025 15:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hurricane Melissa destroyed the homes of Valentino Smith and the Dreamtime Villa team in Jamaica.
This is not charity. It is reciprocity.
💚 Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#RebuildTogether #CollectiveCare
05.11.2025 15:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reflecting on my time in South Africa 🇿🇦.
How has the white body being seen itself as the standard of humanness our collective healing?
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
#SomaticAbolitionism #RacialHealing #BlackOctopusSociety
05.11.2025 01:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The gnashing isn’t failure—it’s feedback. We’re in a 30-year practice. Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
30.10.2025 12:18 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This Thursday we gather.
Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise is a conversation with Bayo Akomolafe, Orland Bishop & me on living, healing & acting as Black people in these times.
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #SeattleEvents
28.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“You don’t get the glue without constriction.” The real work is staying through the squeeze. 🌊
Train: resmaa.mn.co/invite
Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
20.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In 2 weeks: Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise at Town Hall Seattle—an evening on Black identity, ancestral connection + healing w/ Bayo Akomolafe + Orland Bishop.
🗓️ Oct 30 | 7:30 PM
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents
16.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The sperm hasn’t hit the egg yet.” We’re still seeding—still learning to stay in the work when it gets messy.
🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙
09.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Been in the rhythm of this communal love lately
Deante’ Kyle’s @deantekyle.bsky.social (Grits & Eggs Podcast) is a brilliant space for grounded reflection on racism, repair, and collective truth.
It echoes the nervous-system work we’re building in Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
22.07.2025 18:38 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lifting up #AvaDuVernay’s 13th today in this wave of #communallove.
It’s more than a film—it’s a map.
Inside Black Octopus Society, we do this same work in the body—tracking harm, interrupting patterns, building new futures.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
29.07.2025 18:37 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Grateful to have served as cultural consultant on Night Always Comes—a gripping new film now streaming on @netflix.com
It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it.
#NightAlwaysComes
16.08.2025 14:05 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
Y'all did a great freaking job. The whole movie felt real, desperate, yet still somewhat hopeful. I was put in her shoes for one horrible night and could not help but root for her.
17.08.2025 07:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
They called it a “multilateral lunch.” But the photo op came with a funeral.
USAID dissolved. 14M deaths projected.
This isn’t partnership—it’s abandonment.
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🧠 blackoctopussociety.com
#QuakingOfAmerica
16.08.2025 13:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Long live Black bookstores, Black authors, and Black literature.
Sign up. Support your local. Let’s own our stories.
🖤https://www.nab2.org/membership
#NAB2 #BlackBookstores #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackLiterature #SomaticAbolitionism #SupportBlackBusiness
04.08.2025 15:17 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Stop waiting for them to save us.
Every time they ease up, we forget 500 years of brutality.
Liberation starts when we build our own—our art, our care, our glue between each other. That’s the work we’re doing inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
26.08.2025 14:06 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Liberation isn’t real if it excludes.
My freedom is bound up with Black trans lives, with sisters facing misogynoir, with everyone crushed by colonization, imperialism, and land theft.
That’s the work we’re building inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
21.08.2025 16:30 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Anger is not the enemy. In the face of brutality, numbness is.
If you can watch what’s happening in the world and feel nothing—you’re the problem.
Join us in practicing something different: body-based justice, care, and community inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊http://BlackOctopusSociety.com
18.08.2025 15:48 — 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
Healing is both individual + communal.
“What our people really need is a redress of the thwarting + damage done to us—in our bodies, communities, and across generations.”
📖 Go deeper in The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
20.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
