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Dr. Jasmine Syedullah - Professor, queer Buddhist dharma practitioner, collaborator phone: +1 (415) 420-2248Zamí St. Germain - cultural worker, artist, archivist, community member - note: GMT time zone; out of the country at momentphone: +221 775241095
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Work Sample 1: sousou collectives
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I am co-steward and primary convener of 2 ongoing sousous (more on what that is/means in the graphics; 35 participants total), going on 4 (one intergenerational mix of Black & Latin@/x folks and one Chicago-rooted sousou among the more monied Chicago radical organizing & lawyering class for the sake of hyperlocal mutual aid). The first was convened Dec 2023, and launched Feb 2024; the second was first convened in Dec 2024, and launched March 2025; the third and fourth will convene in June (this is the initial interest meeting), and begin in August (when members & structures are settled and put in practice).
These sousous are currently constellations of Black queer community spanning NYC, Chicago, Oakland, South Florida, Dakar (Senegal), Philadelphia, Portugal, Bahia (Brasil), Los Angeles, and
Hudson Valley (NY). We host bi-monthly workshops and skill-trades (e.g. zine-making, go-bag tours, herbalism workshops) , share financial resources monthly according to capacity, gather round food, practice mutual aid (shared groceries, emergency funds, moving support), check in on each other, and practice being more attuned neighbors and community members together. For most of us, these are new connections forged by and through the sousou.
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fellowship app-specific shortened & aggregated sousou ref doc:
live sousou structure & set-up deck
sousou & commons.pdf
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Work Sample 2: freeRising
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freeRising is a recurring Black August meditation and somatic practice series (open to all; 2024 & 2025). A collaboration between myself and long-term friend and queer Dharma elder Dr. Jasmine Syedullah, we drop in for 45m - 2hrs (depending on the size of our community that day) to share abolitionist lessons from ancestors (including water & land), tune into our bodies, and build the practice of somatic witness, tending, and internal capacity-building.
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founded in 2022, aboliton& is a dream & experiment in what labor and mutual aid can be. in collaboration with my friend, poet, and co-conspirator Xochi, we fused our skillsets in crisis response, conflict intervention, curriculum development, & abuse prevention to create a space where we engaged those skills with our networks through arts and educational workshops. sliding scale, donation-based workshops raised resources to fund the folks in our lives who, for whatever reason - be it disability, documentation, carceral status, etc, - get left behind in the current socioeconomic system.
we first started the project because believe in abundance, transcending scarcity through community, and know that we have enough skills, support, and drive to be safe, keep safe & get free together. workshops included experimental classes like abolition&anime: alternate entries to liberation, nectar on the page: abolition&poetry, abolition&mutual aid, etc. (check the details on the graphic for reference!). abolition& had its last workshop in Nov 2024.
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