How can we leverage time travel as a technology of radical hope and collective dreaming?
This session will offer participants a guided meditation to visit past and future experiences of liberation across their personal timelines and to explore past and future generations. We will also build skills to continue exploring this practice after the session. Those who are called to can share some of their dreams and visions with others.
Audrey Kuo is an interdisciplinary artist, abolitionist, and mischief enthusiast working toward collective liberation. Audrey supports individuals and communities in connecting with their values and purpose, through the lenses of disability justice, transformative justice, healing and somatics, and the power of storytelling. Their work is shaped by their identity as a disabled trans person in the Taiwanese, Chinese, and queer diasporas.
In 2017, Audrey co-created Freedom Verses with their friend and comrade Povi-Tamu Bryant, drawing from their joint experiences organizing and working within nonprofits. Audrey is particularly drawn to transformative coaching, as a pathway for individuals to identify their personal values and roles in the struggle for justice and liberation in our lifetimes.
As an abolitionist with big theater kid energy, Audrey believes that the work of liberation asks us not just to dismantle systems of oppression, but to offer compelling, joyful, just, and tangible alternatives. They lean on play, improv, and scenario work as exploratory spaces to imagine beyond our current realities. Their past work as a journalist and editor, youth worker, and nonprofit multitool inform their investments in the power of questions and narrative to transform the world around us. In addition to their work with Freedom Verses, Audrey supports grassroots trans-led organizations as a coach for grantees of Borealis Philanthropy’s Fund for Trans Generations. Their past roles include executive director, senior development officer, and program director.
Audrey is also developing time travel practices as an offering for community members to connect with ancestors, future visions, and collective dreaming. They enjoy playing capoeira, dancing, cooking for and with chosen family, baking bread with their 10-year-old sourdough starter, Fezzik, and bringing trans and queer people to the outdoors. Audrey currently resides on unceded Tongva lands and shares their home with two cats, Jean Grey, and Dr. Hank McCoy.
SJPLA’s Wellbeing Series is a free workshop every second Thursday of the month at 11 am. The workshops introduce a variety of healing modalities as part of our Racial Equity in Homelessness Initiative. These sessions promote personal rest, renewal, and connection creating space for discussion on how to sustain wellbeing practices.
