Jojo here: Non-binary trans, mixed, of African heritage, eastern european jew, white person, ze/they pronouns. I currently reside in occupied Muckleshoot, Duwamish, Stillaguamish, Coast Salish, and Suquamish land; Seattle, WA and spent the last 6 years in occupied Cowlitz, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and Clackamas territories; Portland, OR.
I am bred from a wealthy household raised by disabled parents who were both raised in poverty themselves - my father a child raised in Newark during the Great Depression. As an adult I’ve never made over $9k/year though I’ve lived off of loans inasmuch as $18k/year. I have no crypto experience except by proximity to techies during the bitcoin emergence living in Santa Cruz, CA from 2009 to 2014.
I am cultured from 13 years lived experience in decentralized, queer, anarchist movement spaces mostly in the form of cooperative living with active roles in facilitation, mediation, onboarding, direct action, domestic coordination including shared finances, divination, queering space, event organizing, consent mentorship, shepherding care, food justice, and instruction in visibilizing feminized support roles.
I am grieving the 2 short years I practiced as a chiropractic physician developing a vision to support the wellness of lead organizers during event production and execution. I’m actively licensed and insured as a chiropractor and functional medicine doctor. I focus on food, movement, introspective and breathing-based solutions to brain/gut, body/blood, emotional/spiritual imbalances. I am constantly shaping new technologies of trust, embodiment, and listening mostly in one-on-one interactions.
My dreams include studying talmud with queer mentors, working with the spines of big cats, and investigating the relationship between sexuality and strains of gut bacterium/ the microbiome.
Some of my live mentors include land activist Valencia Wombone, grief mentor and trusted elder Romaine Harris, authors adrienne maree brown and Alexis P Gumbs, holistic resistors Aaron Johnson and Porsha Beed, and PhD, instructor, researcher, and clinical immunologist Heather Zwickey. The deepest and most valuable lessons I’ve learned I’ve learned from Black and Indigenous children and adults.
I value beauty, humor, generative conflict, land acknowledgements, accessible language choices, unconventional questions and language as a spiritual practice, queer/ femme/ BIPOC led spaces, slowing down, rest, and supporting emotional resilience.
I admire failures as lessons and disengagement and self-reflection as antidotes for defensiveness. I love you.