Podcast

This podcast shares the journey to establish a black queer-led intentional community in western Massachusetts. In each episode we meet with one of the collective members to share the journey of intentional community and black indigenous land sovereignty.

Producers:
Orion Gordon, Veleda Roehl and David Ragland 

Director:
Orion Gordon

The devastating impact of COVID-19 has been most profoundly felt in every area of life – safety, work, family culturally – by people in BIPOC communities around the U.S.  Despite the resilience of these communities, and after the movement emerging in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, mutual aid cannot replace decent governments who make the basic needs of its citizenry available. The uprisings in Ferguson, New York, Baltimore and Minneapolis/St.Paul revealed the ongoing violence of the security apparatus against similar communities with Black populations across the U.S.  The response before and after the pandemic to state sanctioned violence has been to organize for freedom. From the Maroons who escaped enslavement, the settlement of Freed Blacks in Manhattan, The Farmer Collectives – Mississippi , MOVE in Philly,  to  the first Community Land Trust – created to protect black land, Black people have been building black sovereignty by stewarding the land for sustenance and protection – sovereignty.

The Kibilio Collective came together through the shared journey of decolonial education, intentional community and activism in New York and Western Mass to build Black queer- and intersectional-led space for healing, education and black and indigenous sovereignty. More about the five focus areas of Kibilio here.