liberatory practice & poetry

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︎gathered by kimi hanauer
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with this inaugural library section, i hope to invite you into the process of co-developing what this place becomes.

hello, my name is kimi. i’m a cultural organizer and initiator of this emerging Center. building on collective and community-based work I have been engaged in over the years, as a founding collective member of Press Press and through other kindred commitments, i am in the process of initiating the Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry (CLP&P). CLP&P is a nomadic and virtual center that gathers a community of learners around ways of being, sensing, and making that enact liberation in everyday life. thanks for being here ︎ 

initiating the Center is a way of honoring the fruits, learnings, and dreams that emerge through the inherently personal and collective work of liberatory practice i engage in alongside many friends, family, and community members. over the years, the ways that liberatory practices have taken shape in my life, as well as the people who have come into my life through this work, have deeply transformed and shaped the person i am today. 

to initiate the process of co-building this space, i gathered a collection of readings, videos, and activities that have shaped my practice and offered a foundation for the emerging Center. they include facilitation and reflection tools from movement-building leaders and community members, works of queer and feminist theory, abolitionist and anarchist perspectives, works of poetry, art, and performance, and explorations of belonging from psychological, social, and legal frameworks.  

i hope this collection of materials invites those who engage them to trace and unsettle the bodily, social, spiritual, and political borders that have dispossessed so many of the right to act in concert with others. and i hope that the center, as it slowly emerges, may also act as an invitation to reimagine and rebuild landscapes of belonging that may hold an us in our fullness.

in initiating the Center, i hope to honor us, without having to delineate and trace who an us can be. i want to honor the ways that my long-term collaborators have shaped me, Bomin Jeon, Vale Cabezas, Bilphena Yahwon, Lu Zhang, and community members and dear friends (there are too many of you to name, but you know who you are) have molded the ground i stand on and the horizon i am able to see. i want to honor all of the ways that self and community are always and sometimes tragically intertwined; we can change and fall apart and come back together and disperse again. i want to honor how a center, like a home, isn’t situated in one place. it lives and breathes within a set of relationships that are constantly in flux.

i’m excited to continue this process of emergence and eagerly welcome you to join in conjuring life into this place.

thanks for being here. 

︎︎kimi hanauer