This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Associate Jamie Stevens, who runs the Better World Club project together with Sierra Lammi.
At the beginning of March, a FEELed Lab community partner, Ponderosa Education Community (PEC), hosted an afternoon community speed zining art session with 20+ community organizers from across movements. Settler colonialism is a destructive force from Turtle Island to Palestine and in the onslaught of so much destruction and oppression, it can be difficult and lonely to find ways through all the emotions. Being together in creativity opens space for feeling and energizes collective solidarity between people and movements.
Participant reflections:
“I think one takeaway for me was how important it is to check up on our friends and communities and create intentional time to share our joy, grief, despair, anger and hope but how easy it is to forget to do those things.”
“A takeaway for me was how beautiful the result can be when we combine people’s creative energy and create art together… the product is always so textured, so vulnerable, and unintentionally profound. In my opinion, much more so than art created in isolation. Reading through the final zines with everybody was such a beautiful exercise in community and co-creation. 💓”
The FEELed lab 