what I do
I work with people and groups who want to become more aware of and undo their investments in human-centric, white supremacist, colonial-capitalist, patriarchal and heteronormative ways of knowing, being and organizing collective life. This includes:
- artistic & research co(l)labs
- writing & editing support
- relational research design, valuation & evaluation
- curriculum & educational materials creation
- creative mentoring & 1-1 accompaniment
who I work with
- writers
- artists
- activists & organizers
- scholars & researchers
- teachers & students
- organizational leaders
- land tenders & stewards
my fees
My fees are on a sliding scale in relation to who you are, where you are, your current access to financial resource and your position within historical systems of wealth accumulation. Get in touch to learn more.
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my approach
My work weaves critical systemic analysis with embodied and poetic ways of knowing, and centers ecological, spiritual and political principles of relationship, complexity and care. I root in the reality that learning and transformation are complex embodied and trans-bodied, cognitive, emotional, relational and metabolic processes. Because of this, personal work is entangled with the histories, places, relationships and social structures with/in which we live. My mentoring therefore welcomes different (and sometimes buried) ways of knowing that help us feel the connections between these dimensions. I engage with the senses and somatic knowledge; human and nonhuman bodies, elements and forces; the erotic in its many forms; written, oral and visual texts; critical, transfeminist, queer, ecological and decolonial theory and research; poetics and linguistics; queer sensibilities and ways of relating; ritual; radical pedagogies; and both minor and expansive intimacies.
artistic & research co(l)abs
I work with artists, scholars/researchers and activists in co-inquiry and co-writing projects, residencies, workshops, knowledge and skill shares, art-life experiments and creative conversations. Visit my workshops and writing pages to see some of the themes of my artistic and scholarly collaborations. I also offer creative mentoring for individuals and small groups, including support for constellating, contextualizing, theorizing and sustaining the life of experimental, transdisciplinary and dissenting practices that gesture towards eco-social change and liberation.
editing & writing support
I offer a range of editing services from developmental and structural editing, copyediting, proofreading, grant-writing support and consultations around the politics of language and anti-oppressive, decolonial and queer expression. Editing is an intimate relationship and political-pedagogical practice for me, and I love working with other authors and artists to bring their work and selves into their most beautiful and generative forms. I accompany writers’ creative, psycho-emotional and political processes in editorial commissions as well as in 1-1 mentoring relationships.
relational research design, valuation & evaluation
I consult on relational research design, valuation and evaluation for eco-social justice groups and organizations. This involves identifying the worldviews and values that permeate projects, understanding the historical-social structures that shape them at different scales, and growing capacities to align work in the world with decolonial and queer principles and practices. I use relational methodologies that center multiple ways of knowing, critical historical-systemic analysis, spiritual-political and queer relationships, and pedagogies of undoing and rewiring.
curriculum & educational materials creation
I research and design curricula and educational material packages for eco-social depth education. This includes creating reading/watching/listening-based courses and activities, resource lists, reflection and writing prompts, study guides about special issues, and zines. I also support people seeking to power-and-privilege-audit their curricula, communications and educational materials. I have twenty-five years of experience in designing educational programs in social and political science, philosophy and education, and in early years, youth, museum and popular pedagogies.
Sarah Amsler 