In this episode of the Dear Patriarchy series we get into conversation with Queer Nature founders Pınar Ateş Sinopoulos-Lloyd and Sophia ("So") Sinopoulos-Lloyd. Queer Nature is a Colorado-based project that creates a decolonially-informed queer futurism through earth-based skills. Queer Nature envisions and implements ecological relationship as a vital and often overlooked part of the healing and wholing of populations who have been systemically silenced and marginalized, such as the LGBTQ2+ population, and especially trans and queer people of color and two-spirit folks. Ecological literacy is deep relationship building with living and non-living earth systems through ancestral-futurist resilience skills including naturalist knowledge, so-called ‘survival’ skills, natural crafts, and local cultural/natural history.

+++Be sure to check out/sign up for Queer Natures upcoming queer scouting intensive Scoutcraft: Belonging as Resistance coming up July 19-21 2018 in Portland OR and also their Queer Mountain Quest, a partnership between Queer Nature & Rites of Passage Journeys which Pinar will be guiding for 13-18 year old youth and taking place near Seattle WA, August 12-25 2018. And hop onto queernature.org to find out information about all the upcoming Queer Nature participation opportunities. +++

Stay connected with Queer Nature AND learn about and sign up to participate in their upcoming workshops and journeys: 
www.queernature.org
IG: @queernature
FB: @queernature
Queer Mountain Quest: http://riteofpassagejourneys.org/wilderness-programs/ages-14-18/queer-mountain-quest

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Dear Patriarchy Ep.3 QUEER NATURE (BBP 74)

These recordings are everyday poems. Essays and conversations about just food//nourishment to come!

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At its heart, Yoga offers us precious tools to live life fully – with more clarity, understanding, ease and joy… We begin to Awaken!

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