Author: Giovanni’s Room
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The Becoming Begins!
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We have enough People to start our first room! I feel excited and nervous and overwhelmed, and so many other things. Becoming is such a strange process, especially when you are arriving at it after forty years of indoctrination in “doing” as a destination. I saw a TikTok recently where a Black woman was remarking…
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Grace in world-building
Hey All! I have been working with my inner critic and my indoctrination in a culture that programs women and AFABs to believe that love is self-sacrifice. I had a furry friend make its way to my door, and as cute as she was, I knew that my home was not meant to be hers.…
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Building Virtual Safety
This week I have spent a lot of time researching companies and parent companies. You’d be surprised at how few corporations own how many things. I do believe that I’ve found us a relatively safe video conferencing platform, though! I’m testing things out this week and working hard to get all of the necessary pages…
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Letting my heart be broken
This has been such a hard few weeks in the world. And I’m still trying to figure out the best way to stay connected to the realities of the current world while building the next one…it is imperfect work. Many days I die and have to come back the next day as someone new. Apologies…
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Community-building is Slow Work…
Hello beautiful people. As you can see, I’m hard at work learning and building Giovanni’s Room into a space where we can heal and learn and grow and be. I am currently prioritizing internal work on perfectionism. It was SO hard for me to launch this site before knowing all that I needed to in…
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Giovanni’s Room is an afrofuturist creative community space where art, thought, and belonging intersect to redefine what it means to be a human in an ever-changing global society.