COMING MAY 4 -- THE BLACK QUEER FEMINIST URBANIST INTENSIVE

NEW LEVELS AVAILABLE FOR THE FOLLOWING TRAINING TRACKS

(Levels include a worksheet, a companion video, and weekly-throughout-May office hours/check-ins around the themes of Affirmation, Solidarity and Facilitating Justice and Belonging)

Affirmation is geared to all those who are currently eligible for Black Queer Feminist Urbanist Lounge membership, as this is tailored specifically to help Black queer, trans, and gender non-conforming folks make sense of the worlds they inhabit. You can access your worksheet right now and I’ll post the video at the beginning of May and set up a poll for the day most folks can come to the check-ins. Lounge members will also have special bonus material that you have to come over to the lounge to find out about. Or, if you want this content on Patreon, a pledge of $5 or more will get you this content.

Solidarity will be available to all $10 level and up Patreons and as a $75 PDF package if you want to purchase it without making a monthly pledge on May 4th. The PDF will include embedded links to my main teaching video and to the office hours along with your worksheet, which will be similar to the one in the affirmation group (because you need it too), but also address the ways you can be in solidarity to those who are affected by anti-Blackness and misogynoir when it shows up in community spaces or as a lower-level volunteer or employee. There will also be bonus content and additional content suggestions here as well.

Facilitating Justice and Belonging will be available to everyone at the $40 level and up on Patreon, much like the original school pilot was, and will be a $175 PDF package available on May 4th. This worksheet, video, and office hours series will focus on creating an action plan to actively dismantle and reset an unjust system or create a place of community belonging - i.e. creating a mutual aid group; drawing up working and sealable engineering or architecture plans for a place or space or route that could fix an inequity or an injustice; creating a co-op or community land trust or something else we can discuss together. Anyone who chooses to do this package, even if you are already in the $40 Patreon level, will need to sit with me one-on-one to determine what this will look like for you and provide a full 34 set CliftonStrenghs assessment.

I will be hosting a live Zoom office hour at 4 pm Eastern on Mondays for the month of May where I’ll go into more detail about each section, answer any questions, and get folks signed up at the right place. I’ll share recordings of these office hours as well, with descriptions of key questions asked. You can also request a solo office hour if you would like if you are pledged in the program.

You can also still do the quick quiz to see where you might fall, but note that signing up for a clarity call or coming to office hours is the best way to know what course to take.

Finally (for this part), this year will be the lowest rate of any year for these Patreon levels and if you are already in the Lounge now, hang in there so you can continue on through all the other programs at the same rate. Same with all the other levels -- this program will go up, so get in now if cost is an issue. Scholarships will be available in the future, but it will never be this easy to join.

Now that you know what's going on in the next couple of weeks...

Hello, I’m Kristen a Greensboro, NC born, D(M)V area based queer Black femme-presenting busyish, transit-adjacent, urban-dwelling possibility model for Black folks who are at least queer-affirming if not queer themselves to make their own clothing, home decor and other art and crafty things to reclaim ancestral knowledge and power and nurture the planet.

I mostly crochet, but I also embroider, sew, weave, surface print/graphic design, teach workshops, deliver keynotes, and demand that spaces and places of all kinds are pro-Black, economically just, and work with, not against, our natural resources.

I do that last part on a regular basis through my newsletter The Black Urbanist Weekly, my weekly livestream/interview series Open Studio with Kristen Jeffers, contributing to publications and platforms of all kinds, and doing event keynotes.

In addition to the training courses listed above, you'll have access to my library of podcasts past and present and you'll get a special email thanking you every week, along with the newsletter.