Through creative acts and community building rituals we re-make the world
kristen jordan alaan sison
k / bones / bonesthrown
/ story-weaver/collagist + <community> archivist
leaning into the embodiment of new-ancient futures.
Founding member of Kapwa Collective + Conscious Minds Co-operative,
and Rooted And Rising.
Editor + curator of Womxn and It’s Bigger Than All Of Us.
Forever bookwitch ✧
Kristen currently lives by a creek surrounded by cedar elders, on the unceded territories of the Sinixt, Ktunaxa and Syilx peoples, in a little mountain town.
She grew up in Scarborough, the east end of Toronto/Tkaronto, on Dish With One Spoon Wampum Treaty Territory. The islands currently known as the Philippines is where her ancestors called home.
She’s currently trying on an Associate Producer role on Outsiderness Documentary, a film that explores questions of belonging and identity, while interviewing folks from the growing Filipino population in the rural town of Nelson, here in the interior rainforest of Nelson, BC. You can follow along at @outsiderness_doc
Playing healing music on FutureNowRadio, every Monday from 7-8 pm pacific on Kootenay Coop Radio: https://www.kootenaycoopradio.com/show/futurenow-radio/
Some ways I can be of assistance:
Lately I’ve been assisting other artists and healers with the creation of aligned websites that reflect their sacred work. Connect with me if you’re seeking support with this! A client called me a website doula, which feels right :)
I also co-create radical education spaces as a deep thinker & facilitator transforming how we do education in the era of climate change. I have 10+ years of experience building with community. We are reclaiming the stories of now: from doom / gloom to whole health + possibility, re-memberering what it means to honour our responsibilities, for Life! ✧
I offer respect to the teachings of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, and seek to embody my responsibility to this covenant. The Dish With One Spoon Wampum asks us to peaceably share the resources, waters, and gifts of this beautiful land and its abundance of fresh water. I commit to doing my part to uplift the true intentions of these treaties. I know I am not growing alone, and that we are wiser when we learn to work together.
I give gratitude to the Anishinaabe, Peoples of the Longhouse, the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the Petun — Original Stewards of the lands and waters I grew up on.
I honour the continued presence, active resistance and wise leadership of the first peoples across Turtle Island, and across the globe, backwards and forwards in time. I honour our first teachers: our more-than human relatives & kin — Water + all elementals, the Plant Nations, Animal Nations, Tree Elders, Rocks + Winds. May the work I do serve as medicine on our shared path towards sovereignty and liberation.