What creators are saying about Sound Ancestors Studio:
Sound Ancestors Studio Session 2 is slated for January 28th. We will be focusing on the role that creativity and ancestral connection play in ritualizing radical imagination and why it is an essential technology right now. 9 creators will be able to attend this 40-minute container and it is still donation-based. 5 spots are still available. It will not be recorded, but you will receive a follow-up email afterward if you sign up and miss the session. Get your tickets here.
I learned a while back that sometimes, I come into a space to fuck shit up.
Could be astrological: all the Uranus, Saturn, and Pluto energy I came to Earth with... It can be hard to accept these parts of your nature when you’re looking for acceptance and safety. You go somewhere hoping these will be your people and you’ll find your place among them. Only to find out you went there to test them, expose what is wrong, and ultimately destroy the foundation of their (and possibly your own) falsehoods.
Have you ever been in a situation like that?
Have you ever been the person that uncovers what needs to be dismantled by accident or been the person who can’t help criticizing and poking holes in what you were invited to clap for? It’s isolating. No one likes you for it, even if they agree with you in private. You don’t want to be seen as negative. You don’t want to be a problem.
Then eventually you realize…the negativity you’re accused of bringing was you shedding light on someone else’s abuse, irresponsibility, greed, etc. And as ODB said, if you got a problem, a problem’s got a problem til it’s gone. It could be far less dramatic in that you’re realizing a part of yourself that has overstayed its welcome needs to be destroyed, even though it’s familiar and makes other people comfortable around you. It could be that thing you sunk so much time and energy into that needs to be destroyed in order for something better to grow in its place. The essential message is the same: destruction has to happen…and it’s not always pretty.
Creators are also destroyers.
There is an art to dismantling and deconstructing, just as there is an art to building and (re)constructing. When concepts of darkness and low vibrations are flattened and demonized, necessary measures such as destruction are not honored. The people who do this often leave the dirty work like calling out bullshit and calling in community members for their wrongdoings to someone else, even if they know their voice needs to be heard in a matter. They don’t want to make hard choices that have no option for “love and light”. They abandon what is true for what is easy.
And so it is the ones who meet their callings to destroy that which must be destroyed for collective balance who have the necessary experience to create what is sustainable. They are equipped to usher in change and withstand the discomfort of transformation.
As we envision nu worlds brithed from ancient wisdom, updated technologies, and unprecedented ecosystems, we must also acknowledge and honor the destruction that will have to precede them. There are no better worlds without abolitionists.
What are you dedicated to putting an end to? What comfort will you sacrifice in order to do your part in dismantling oppressive regimes — the ones that live inside your spirit and the ones you are helping to uphold externally? Do remember, solidarity doesn’t just look like creating programs and giving to someone in need — it also looks like actively taking away from the state and relinquishing what you think you own in order to help indigenous people reclaim what is theirs. What paradigms will you dissolve and what ramifications are you prepared to face as empire collapses over the course of your life?
Do you maintain relationships with the spirits that protect you, the ones that were violent and burned bridges in their lifetime with no remorse? Have you made room for their messages to come through, or are you only listening for what will help you consume more and feel better?
Chewed. See you the 28th!