- We believe that all bodies are deserving of rest, healing, and pleasure– and we prioritize bodies that are historically left out of care, particularly those bodies of Queer people, Trans and GNC people, people of color, working class people, and disabled people.
- We believe in care that is non-hierarchical and consensual. We reject models of care that rely on charity and center our frameworks on models of mutual aid and knowledge building.
- We prioritize and uplift the voices of Queer people, Trans and GNC people, people of color, working class people, and disabled people as the holders of sacred knowledge and bodily power.
- We prioritize the well-being of our community members over short term goals and deadlines. We understand that to build sustained care and joy in our communities, we need to pace our energy and avoid burn-out.
- We are invested in environmental sustainability. We understand ourselves as part of an ecosystem that requires care. We honor and recognize the land and the stewards of the land that have come before us.
Our collective is broadly focused on wellness as it pertains to the Queer community. We are intentional about bridging the intersections of care as it pertains to Queer folk, specifically for Queer people of color, Trans people, and disabled people. This is the forefront of our core work because we have identified these groups as particularly pushed out of popular healing infrastructure.
We advocate for a version of wellness that welcomes and celebrates all bodies, including bodies that defy gender expectations and bodies that cannot perform a linear upward version of health and healing. We work to advocate for returning cultural healing practices back to their ancestral stewards and away from appropriative, extractive, and capitalist-oriented contexts. We find our work within these intersections and see it as a practice of “queering” wellness.