RESTORATIVE JUSTICE • HEALING • COLLECTIVE LIBERATION
The Queer Quilombo Series
ABOUT
The Queer Quilombo Series is a restorative justice, collective healing, and community education initiative designed for queer, trans, sapphic, and Two-Spirit communities, alongside allies in solidarity.
Inspired by the historical tradition of quilombos, communities established by Africans escaping enslavement in Brazil and their descendants, the series draws upon histories of resistance, ancestral knowledge, and collective survival to explore how communities can create more equitable, accountable, and liberated futures.
We recognize that community building requires more than bringing people together. It requires examining systems of power, understanding how harm occurs within our communities, honoring the wisdom of those who came before us, and developing practices rooted in healing, accountability, and shared responsibility.
Through educational workshops, facilitated conversations, community gatherings, restorative justice education, and somatic practices, the Queer Quilombo Series invites participants to learn, unlearn, reconnect, and collectively imagine new possibilities for liberation.
Our programming centers historically marginalized perspectives while exploring the intersections of colonialism, racial justice, queer liberation, cultural identity, ancestral knowledge, and collective care.
We gather not only to imagine liberated futures, but to develop the relationships, practices, and resources necessary to build them together.
OUR MISSIONTo cultivate spaces for collective learning, restorative justice, healing, and ancestral connection that support queer communities in developing more equitable, accountable, and sustainable practices of care.
Quilombo Series Program Pillars
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Roots & Resistance
Exploring colonialism within queer spaces, histories of resistance, and the movements that have shaped contemporary struggles for liberation.
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Somatic Liberation
Exploring movement, breathwork, grounding, and body-based practices that support reconnection with the body, emotional awareness, and collective healing.
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Healing Justice
Building knowledge and skills related to accountability, repair, conflict transformation, and restorative community practices.
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Queer Futures & Dreaming
Creating intentional opportunities to imagine liberated futures and explore what equitable, affirming, and sustainable communities could look like for future generations.
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Land, Home & Ancestors
Honoring relationships to land, lineage, cultural traditions, and ancestral knowledge while exploring how these connections inform belonging, identity, and community responsibility.
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Community Care Lab
Developing practical approaches to mutual aid, collective care, resource sharing, and sustainable support networks that strengthen community relationships.
What we do:
The Queer Quilombo Series creates opportunities for learning, healing, and community engagement through:
Educational workshops on colonialism, identity, and histories of resistance.
Facilitated conversations about power, equity, and community accountability.
Restorative justice education and conflict transformation workshops.
Movement, breathwork, grounding, and somatic wellness practices.
Cultural education and intergenerational storytelling.
Workshops exploring relationships to land, home, and ancestry.
Creative activities and community visioning sessions.
Mutual aid education and community resource sharing.
Panels featuring educators, cultural practitioners, and community organizers.
Somatic and restorative activities should be facilitated by appropriately trained individuals, with participation voluntary and clear procedures for handling disclosures of harm.
Invest in healing. Sustain liberation.
Your contributions help make restorative justice education, cultural exploration, and community healing accessible while supporting the educators and practitioners whose knowledge makes this work possible.
Donations Help Fund:
Community Educators & Cultural Practitioners
Honoraria for facilitators, historians, cultural practitioners, and community educators.
Restorative Justice Education
Facilitator training, workshop materials, and educational resources focused on accountability and repair.
Somatic & Healing-Centered Programming
Appropriately trained practitioners, activity supplies, and accessible wellness experiences.
Accessible Community Gatherings
Venue rentals, transportation assistance, and accommodations that reduce participation barriers.
Cultural Education
Books, educational materials, storytelling activities, and resources related to ancestry, resistance, and community history.
Community Care Initiatives
Mutual aid education, community resource-sharing projects, and practical tools for sustaining collective care.