HOMEplxce Hummin'Bird™ ― Hoodie

Crown yourself with energetic hospitality for livez we consent to living.

HOMEplxce™, which translates to iKhaya in isiXhosa, calls us forth to our ancestral homesteads. Our gardens. The spaces we cultivate and craft into our own with rituals, experiences, and dreaming. The places that hold our vulnerability. Our joy. What does it mean to come home to you? Drawing from bell hooks' articulation of "homeplace" as "a site of resistance," a place "where we can recover ourselves." Our use of the "x" instead of "a" in HOMEplxce, illuminates the various ways Black queer peoples have cultivated HOMEplxces that "subvert" the structural world that seeks their undoing. We know that HOME is not always a building, or made up of biological family members. We know that coming HOME to oneself is the work of continual unconditional love.
Welcome HOME, Sib!

Co-imagine. Co-heal. Co-create.
What are you conjuring?

Hummin’Bird™ — In a world that can incentivize us to close ourselves off in self-protection, I know my heart to open, full, and eager to KINnect. Hummingbirds have huge hearts that beat over 1000 times per minute. Their chests precede them with wings suspended, as though they're in a perpetual swan dive to freedom. Hummingbirds remind me to leap in faith, in actionable belief towards just and joyous tomorrows. Hummingbirds are also efficient in flight, never wasting energy in pursuit of the life's nectar. They remind us to enjoy the sweetness of life, drink from Mama Nature's aliveness.

“The healing… you create community. I’m so happy. Because of your leadership and the ways in which you hold people, you love people, and you challenge people. I've been noticing a difference.”

– YJC Youth Organizer