Hello 👋 A warm welcome to you from Waawiyatanong/ metro Detroit. I am Katelyn Rivas(she/hers). I am a poet, essayist, mother and transracial adoptee curating ecosystems for care while also confronting and abolishing ecosystems of oppression, racism, capitalism, sexism ( all the isms) through my newsletter, Sister Sojourner.
Sister Sojourner is an offering to you and to myself for belonging in the midst of longing, grief and hardship. I first dreamed up this concept while in college so to say this is a long time coming is an understatement.
This newsletter is named Sister Sojourner because it is a call to my ancestors who sojourned through many oppressions such as slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping and The Great Migration.
Sister to me means someone who comes alongside for moments of joy and sadness. Sister is there to guide, make, love, wonder and question. Sister is one of trust and belief.
Sojourner to me means someone who journeys deep, deeper still. They are audacious and believe in the freedom dreams of the future. Sojourner is one who dances on the tables she has overturned.
If you are here that means, like me, you are curious about ways to blend the personal and the political, share in creative practice and process and heal in community.
So come on in. We are all here sistering, sojourning each other and ourselves home.