Tending Futures

This Juneteenth, may we remember that freedom is still unfinished work. May we continue to free ourselves from systems that seek to divide, exploit and disappear us. May we choose each other again and again.

Because we are our ancestors’ wildest dreams and because no one is coming to save us. We keep us safe. We keep us fed. We keep us free.

Happy Juneteenth. ❤️🖤💚

Two things: we are currently updated the servers for our website so it’s down. Hopefully we’ll be back working and much better within the next two days!

Also we have a community need of $485 in the next two days if you’re able to contribute to our mutual aid fund:

Earth & Sky Collective Fund: Uplifting Black and Indigenous Women & Two-Spirit Communities The Earth & Sky Collective Fund is a grassroots mutual aid fund dedicated to empowering Black and Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit peoples. We are committed to creating a community-based network that supports our most vulnerable members, recognizing that our liberation and well-being are essential to...

Especially with everything unfolding currently, Tennessee is being reduced to a symbol of racism, reactionary politics and oppression. And while those realities absolutely exist, that is not the full story.

As a Black and Indigenous-led organization rooted in the US South, Tending Futures believes it matters deeply that we tell the whole truth about this land and the people who have fought for it. White supremacy depends on historical amnesia. It wants us disconnected from the generations of Black and Indigenous people who resisted before us because when we forget them, we begin to believe liberation has never existed here.

But it has. And it still does.

We refuse to erase the work our ancestors and communities have done and continue to do across the South. Our stories are not only stories of suffering. They are stories of resistance, creativity, kinship and ongoing survival.

The South has always contained both violence and rebellion. We come from the rebellion.