Collaboration Principles

Our organizing principles are dynamic; rooted in increasing safety, rather than control, we seek to guide our understanding of one another, rather than enforce policing language or bodies.

1. Relationship before product

We prioritize alignment by centering consent, dignity, and reciprocity in all collaborations, while recognizing how our work emerges from histories of extraction and silencing.

2. The body holds knowledge

We honor the truth that creativity emerges from lived experience, evolving nervous systems, ancestry, and survival. Capacity and pacing matter. Time, vision, and emotional labor are valued and compensated.

3. Decolonial, Transnational orientation

We resist extractive models rooted in imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. Our work seeks to dismantle these systems through care, imagination, and collective responsibility.

4. Art is not neutral

We do not believe art is separate from politics, nor do we require artists to perform ideology. We trust one another to show up raw, complicated, and human.

5. Credit, authorship, and consent are non-negotiable

Roles, rights, and expectations are clearly named. Nothing is reused, reproduced, or repurposed without explicit agreement.

6. Ethics are the bones

We commit to our ethics by naming a process for harm by creating a container for listening, providing repair options, and clarifying boundaries if repair falls.

Leadership Expectations

♡ We view our organizational structure as a round table with multiple legs: when one leg is unsteady, the entire fixture wobbles.

♡ Ideas, personalities, and new visions are constantly rotating, and revisited with collaboration allowing space for contemplation and quiet processing for those in hibernation season, rather than sourcing knowledge in a hierarchal ladder.

  1. We center truth over harmony when the two are in conflict. We document reality rather than debate it. We recognize that conflict is a necessary aspect of intimacy and trust building.

  2. We value preparation, clarity, and consistency as signs of care. We hold one another accountable for documenting meeting notes and agreements, rather than flowing with the vibes.

  3. We understand that avoidance dressed as neutrality causes harm. We value transparency, integrity, and radical acceptance of difference. Our advocacy moves throughout worlds.

  4. We do not confuse private validation with public accountability. We are committed to growing together. Transparency and confidentiality are two sides of the same coin.

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Please review our collaboration principles if you are interested in learning more about partnership. This form invites all general questions, inquires for scheduling public speaking or workshop events, and suggestions for feedback.

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