What happened here? Why does my basement flood with wastewater every winter?

Diving deep to untangle the stories of a specific site, lot, home, community garden, institution, park, etc. This work draws from a variety of sources including archives, historic maps, postcolonial ecologies, and targeted site visits. Special attention will be made to elevate the stories of Black, Indigenous, queer, migrant, and working class lives - interweaving them with the realities and mythologies of “history” as told by predominant white supremacist narratives.

Where am I and how did I get here?

Using tools outside of traditional genealogy to build deep, personal, and intentional relationships with ancestors.

People who would benefit especially from this work are queer people, survivors of abuse, refugees, migrants, and others with limited access to blood family.

I have done a lot of work in the areas of

• new york city; arkansas, florida, virginia, the carolinas; California and the "west"

• family histories of people who worked the land and built america’s genocidal infrastructure projects

• safely and supportively navigating the archives - the embodied experience of working in archival spaces with violent resources

• the intuitive leaps it takes to do this research, and accessible and no-cost resources to do genealogical resource

Who was here before me? What can they teach me and what can I offer in exchange?

Whether you grew up in a home where you were visited by previous inhabitants, or you are seeking to build a reciprocal relationship to a new space you are living in, growing on, or stewarding for future generations, this work seeks to elevate the stories that lay buried under the foundations of our everyday lives.

This is not an exorcism, or a ghost hunt, or a misa. Practices employed will remain firmly grounded in my own research tools and traditional practices, and (with your guidance) the practices of whoever your people are.

Where have we been? Where are we going?

A systemic ritual to gain insight into the events that stretch out infinitely behind us and in front of us.

Methodologies include:

• Augury

• Bone throwing

— in-person only —

Who is missing? How can I contact them?

A one-on-one consult to uncover plant medicines, elements, and somatic practices that can help support with processing and healing in times of transition and loss.

— in-person only —

Custom-built workshops for families, community groups, institutions, and schools.

Past workshops have explored:

• People’s history of a place

• Postcolonial ecologies

• Queer existence and resistance

• Cosmology of time/place/space, including deathwork and ritual

• Plant identification & introductios

• Deep city bird listening & critter tracking

• Food as medicine

• Trauma-informed somatics to facilitate healing relationships to land and place

Workshops are interactive and draw heavily from popular education, seeking to connect participants with territory and ancestry. Workshops can take place either online or in-person.

For pricing an availability, please shoot me an email.