The Drinking Gourd

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Nourishing with wisdom from the more-than-human world and the guidance of the body in order to get free.

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About Kelsey Blackwell

She/Her author of Decolonizing the Body, politicized somatic practitioner, animist, dreamer of liberation, weaver of aliveness.

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