Love

In 2019 Shiree Teng manifested a vision she had been carrying for years: Measuring Love, a brown paper, part manifesto part framework for infusing love as a practice into the hustle of the non-profit sector. She brought me in as a scribe to support the writing process and produce the artwork for the paper. We boldly declared love as a threat to systems of separation, the driving force of decolonizing and the essence of building real community power. This conversation spans the arc of this first gathering all the way to the 2022 publication of our follow-up paper, Healing Love: Into Balance. We talk about our non-linear process of writing and artmaking in dialogue with one another and with the land, why love requires us to embrace wholeness and wholeness requires healing, and what to do when you’re faced with having to love the monster. Here are the links for Measuring Love, a Brown Paper and Healing Love: Into Balance⁠. I’m so proud to share this collective work just infused with love. Enjoy the convo! Thanks for listening. You can learn more about upcoming workshops and all things Somatic Scribing on my website asthecrowfliesdesign.com or by following me on Instagram @crowcamino. Music for this podcast is from the album Black Shamxn by our labmate, multidisciplinary artist and healing practitioner, Neith Sankofa. You can check the show notes for all that info, and if you’re in a different corner of the web singing the same song, come say hi. We’d love to hear from you.