Please join the 2024 cohort of the Garden House Writing Residency on zoom for a VIRTUAL READING of our work! Sunday, October 27th at 7:00 pm EST (6pm CST, 5pm MST, 4pm PST).
We are excited to be hosted by Ra Malika Imhotep, a Black feminist creative-intellectual devoted to Black craft in the fibers, the text, the classroom, and beyond. They are the author of gossypiin, a poetry collection & The Black Feminist Study Theory Atlas, a spiritual-political education tool.
Please register for this VIRTUAL EVENT: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkduyuqDkoHtYWFP0E4bW8qZ0k9756MN3z
It isn't too late to help us reach our fundraising goal! We still have $840 to go. We appreciate the love of all who've made this experience possible.
My name is Shana Turner and Community Solstice is where my work as a writer, facilitator, organizer, and grassroots educator come together.
Born on the summer solstice, I was raised in the tradition of kitchen-table, relationship-based organzing for collective survival and capacity to thrive. Most of what I value deeply, I've learned from Black Feminism, queerness, and working-class culture.
I bring twenty-five years of experience with justice organizing, infrastructure development, participatory planning, creative writing projects, and collective learning through popular education. My insights about how power functions are also informed by my experiences sustaining myself throughout most of my life with jobs in food service, house cleaning, and childcare.
Through my work, I seek to treat wounds as sites for transformation, to interupt the narrative that people are either victims or offenders, and engage rituals of ceremony in the ordinary movements of everyday life. My work assesses equity and disparities of power within groups, seeks to understand the roots of violent domination and supremacy, including exploring crossroads between division or solidarity within the histories of my Irish and Jewish lineages.
Front porches, racial tensions, stretch marks, kitchen tables, coming of age, queerness, lives interrupted by violence, natural human magic and intricacies of working-class culture are threads in my writing. I am currently working to publish my first novel, 'Claiming Caidin.'
Contact: info@communitysolstice.com
Current Community Writing Projects
YESTERDAY'S FUTURE
I am serving as
Editing Team Coordinator & Logistics Manager
THE GARDEN HOUSE WRITING RESIDENCY
I am serving as
Organizer
DIFFERENT THREADS OF THE SAME FABRIC
I am serving as
Steward of the Process
PAST COMMUNITY WRITING PROJECTS
