my Fire, My Fuel, My Freedom

Is This the Course You've Been Waiting For?

I'm building a course that takes Audre Lorde's framework of the erotic seriously as a political practice—moving beyond academic discourse about the importance of her work, and beyond embodiment work for activists that never mentions eros as fuel. Both matter. This course brings them together.

My Fire, My Fuel, My Freedom: Erotic Embodiment for Activists is designed for people who are already in the work—organizing, showing up, carrying the weight of the moment—and who are starting to feel the cost of doing that from a body that's running on empty.

Wellness work often ignores politics. Sacred sexuality work often floats above the reality we're living in. Nervous system regulation often treats burnout as personal rather than structural. This course starts from a different premise: your capacity for pleasure is contested territory under fascism, and reclaiming it is both an act of defiance and the fuel that keeps you in the fight for the long haul.

What You'll Learn

This is a 5-week course teaching breathwork and embodied practices rooted in Audre Lorde's framework of the erotic as power. You'll learn:

• Foundational breathwork that grounds you in your body instead of operating from your head alone

• Somatic practices you can use before actions, during difficult meetings, when processing rage or grief

• Embodied accountability practices including how to offer somatic-based apologies when you've caused harm

• How to work with the erotic as fuel for sustained resistance rather than burnout

• Daily practices that keep you connected to why you're fighting—not just enduring, but alive

These are practical tools you can use in the actual conditions of organizing.

How It Works

• 5 weeks of video content (drips weekly on Sundays)

• 3 live calls: Kickoff (Saturday before Week 1), office hours (Week 3), integration (Saturday after Week 5)

• Private forum for processing and community support

• Starts in April (exact date TBD)

Investment

$230 (paid in full) or $240 (3 monthly payments of $80)

Scholarships available (funded by donations).

Newsletter subscribers get 15% off.

What I'm Figuring Out

I have the framework. I have the content. What I don't have yet is a finished curriculum—because I'm not willing to spend months building something nobody asked for.

So I'm asking first.

This course only runs if at least 9 people commit by March 10.

Who This Is For

This course centers QTBIPOC activists and organizers. White folks and cishet folks who are comfortable with that centering are more than welcome.

This is for people who are:

• Already doing organizing work and feeling the physical cost

• Looking for sustainable practices that don't require retreating from the fight

• Ready to work with pleasure and the erotic as political tools, not just personal ones

• Committed to showing up for themselves so they can keep showing up for the movement

Who This Is NOT For

This course is not for people who:

• Are looking for generic wellness or self-care divorced from political reality

• Want to treat burnout as an individual problem to be solved privately

• Are uncomfortable with explicit conversations about bodies, pleasure, and the erotic

• Are not actually engaged in organizing or resistance work

What Happens Next

By March 10: Email me and let me know you're interested. If you want to share what's drawing you to it or what you're hoping it would give you, I'd love to hear that too - but a simple "yes, I'm interested" works.

If we get 9+ people: I'll finish building the full curriculum and send enrollment details to everyone who expressed interest. You'll get the complete course outline and can decide whether to commit.

If we don't get 9 people: The course doesn't run, and I know this isn't what folks need right now. No harm, no foul.

Questions?

Email me directly.

For general info about how my Cybercourses run, see here.