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Looking Back on This Is My Body
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Looking Back on This Is My Body

A few months ago my pierogi (a term of endearment for one of my polyamourous partners) Caitlin, came to Jess and I with an idea. The progressive church, Open Way, where they are co-pastor curates a community building, educational offering each year, focused on a different matter of collective liberation. This year, they proposed, members…

Pre-Holidays Workshop
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Pre-Holidays Workshop

Next month, rather than planning a 3rd Wednesday afternoon Craft Crossover (especially because the 3rd wednesday is the 25th) I’m cooking up something else instead. I’m trying doing 2 different times, one in the afternoon and one after my kid’s bed time. I hope that y’all will join me to explore and practice tools and…

Update on Pleasure (your) Chest Community Care Fund
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Update on Pleasure (your) Chest Community Care Fund

After wrapping up the 5th cohort through the “Pleasure (Your) Chest” workshop series we wanted to give an update to the folks in our community who have been helping us keep this going. As you probably know, we offer this to folks on a sliding scale. We know that there are significant, compounding axis of…

New Book of Poems available for purchase

These poems were written during the month of October 2023, while Kori was care taking their terminally ill partner and co-parent. This writing challenge process offered a space for the immensity of emotions directly associated with the second hand experience of cancer treatment and coming to terms with one’s mortality, but also includes some pieces…

First Spring
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First Spring

Here on the west coast, we barely have much of a Canadian winter, a couple of days of snow, a few blustery rain stormy days, and then… just like that, flowers are popping up, buds are appearing on trees and bushes and the length of days stretches noticeably on both ends. As things are pushing…