I recently started climbing again and it has been a major joy for me. This year, I've climbed with friends at the Red River Gorge in Kentucky and Jackson Falls in Southern Illinois. I promised myself two years ago that I would pursue outdoor activities that made me face my fears—so here I am learning to crave the freedom I find in the heights that scare me.
I'm an organiser with the Chicago Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (CCHRP). We fight for the liberation of the Filipino/a/x masses—especially Indigenous peoples, farmers, workers, and queer and femme folks—and against the evils of colonialism, imperialism, and environmental plunder. Long live international solidarity!
This year I got my first-level wildland firefighting certification! I work as an ecological restoration technician, living on and nurtured by the ancestral lands of the Council of the Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Peoples— as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois Nations. I love to nurture my relationship with the land in deeper ways each season and expand how I imagine my relationships with my human and non-human relatives.
I owe much of my strength, hope, and passion to my beloved, radical, queer, and committed farmers, food workers, food sovereignty advocates, and friends—from Windy City Harvest, Experimental Station, Star Farm, Green City Market, and many other urban farms & community gardens in Chicago.
This one's pretty self-explanatory.
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