Let's practice LORDEAN LIGHT!
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Below you can learn about our practice, or donate to support others to have access. This is meaning making work, creative/film/story work. It is a practice of world making. I am confident that it is already making the world anew! Scroll down to see a examples.
In these stained glass workshop we are creating imaginal cells. We engage OUR poetic work as Audre Lorde describes it in her essay Poetry Is Not A Luxury, "[Poetry] forms, the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action." We are using stained glass window-making to work with light; to work with light in the metaphorical and energetic sense but also in the practical sense of creating physical objects to tell a story, shift a story, also to transform space, to transform us ever toward freedom (of every kind).
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To change, to transform we must first have within us a representation of what we are creating. We intend to physically practice what it is to re-present light alongside our practice of re-presenting our living. Like the imaginal cells in a caterpillar hold the vision and the blueprint for transformation, we gather to deepen our relationships in non-linear and de-colonial forms. Poetic forms! The stained glass windows we create are windows to the future because they hold space for that imaginal work.
We want more spaces that function as relationship building space and practice space (not meeting space nor conference space, respectively) for community leaders and organizational leaders (that means each of us) to engage in the poetic work, the freedom making work of love and liberation.
I want this practice to create a throughline and shared context (a shared light, a shared hope, a shared dream and vision), a shared sacred space (shout out to poet Destiny Hemphill) to extend beyond offering our critique and into the poetic work of tangibly practicing living out our values and visions.
what Lorde says about...
In this same Lorde essay she compares two approaches "I think therefore I am" and "I feel therefore I can be free" and points out that thinking and ideas alone (each alone) will not make us free. Though Lorde has a critique of limiting ourselves to a western patriarchal approach that prioritizes the mind, thought and linearity, she speaks of the "possibility for fusion (shout out to Fusion Gallery)of these two approaches as keystone for survival, and we come closest to this combination in our poetry." I said, Audre Lorde she speaks of the "possibility for fusion (shout out to Fusion Gallery)of these two approaches as keystone for survival, and we come closest to this combination in our poetry." The stained glass making practice is a skill that we intend to learn in community and spread in community as an offering and a journey toward freedom making.
what Alexis said about the 1st wkshp
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My mark on b card created circa 2010s
Stained glass I created this year (2025)
Example of beginner wkshp project
I didn't see the stained glass influence until I made this for my love, Alexis— her 3 sacred words the year we met.
Now I am developing pathways to circulate this creative energy more broadly including through stained glass objects and through activating the stained glass I make with Black feminist sermonics.
Like TCB taught us...
I felt strongly I must learn in community
Loved ones showed up...
3 wkshps rooted me in the fundamentals
Culture is for GROWTH!
After 3 wkhps I began designing my own