somatic semantics 119
i want to know who you are — to sense what is always already happening within you, to encounter the forces that pulse in your possibilities
hi hello,
welcome to the one hundred and nineteenth issue of somatic semantics.
a semi-coherent + loosely assembled spell
i want to know where you are — your cosmic, geopolitical and somatic coordinates, the temperature of your waters, the cadence of your tides, the texture of your compost, of your soil, of what it lays to rest and what it (re)births
i want to know how you got here — who and what carries you through time/space and shapes your notions of presence
i want to know the story of your name — to breathe into the sounds that summon you, to sense the genealogies of affect that bind your flesh
i want to know more — to live in your yes and all that it spills into, to stretch beyond coherence, into the convergence of (re)memory, intuition and imagination1
i want to know who you are — to sense what is always already happening within you, to encounter the forces that pulse in your possibilities
i want to know what you need — to trace vessels of trust and tenderness, to witness them carry you through fear, toward honesty
i want to know what you want — to sense the texture of your seeking, to witness you spilling beyond permission
i want to know your demands — to bind with atoms that speak the language of your longing
i want to know who will hear you — to witness your needs and desires being held by curiosity
i want to know where you will go — to spill into the future with you
spill into the new year with me (?)
join me for the clap back manifest(o), a 9-week journey in service of fugitive practice(s) that will begin monday january 12, 2026.
register today to claim 1 of 7 remaining spots!
manifest(o) is for hoes, healers, artists, intellectuals, organizers, auntxs, lovers, dreamers and schemers. this journey is for those who wish to grow old, those who wish they were never born, and anyone who has been rehearsing their bravest breathing2.
📍where
zoom (online)
with auto-captioning and recording
🗓️when
january 12, 2026 to march 11, 2026
mondays and wednesdays from 12:00 to 13:30 eastern time
🤲🏾the offering
1 syllabus
1 methodological playbook
9 playlists
9 workshops
9 story circles
💌registration is open
7 of 15 spots remaining
🚨registration closes
january 5, 2026
this offering is for you if…
🖤 you are curious about yourself
🖤 you want to contextualize your fear(s)
🖤 you want to dream, remember, and imagine with(in) a cohort of fugitive practitioners
🖤 you want to cultivate a(n inner) space that you can return to as you (re)articulate your needs and desires
🖤 you want your words and actions to respect your limitations and the possibilities they are infused with
(( registration closes monday january 5, 2026 ))
who are you?
what do you need?
what do you want?
what are your demands?
answer these questions with(in) a cohort of hoes, healers, artists, intellectuals, organizers, auntxs, lovers, dreamers and schemers as you create personal manifestos.
these manifestos will make tangible the futures we are reaching for while clarifying necessary individual and collective steps toward them.
(( registration closes monday january 5, 2026 ))
the journey
week 1
how did we get here?
week 2
tell me the story of your name
week 3
yes, and… also
week 4
who are you?
week 5
what do you need?
week 6
what do you want?
week 7
what are your demands?
week 8
who will hear you?
week 9
where will you go?
(( registration closes monday january 5, 2026 ))
gatherings
weekly workshops
mondays from 12:00 to 13:30 eastern time
workshops begin with meditations, which are followed by directed journaling.
weekly story circles
wednesdays from 12:00 to 13:30 eastern time
story circles are a space to discuss how this work lands in our bodies and what ripples it creates throughout our care networks.
(( registration closes monday january 5, 2026 ))
resources
🖤 a syllabus of personal excavation prompts to immerse you in inquiries that will spill into your manifesto
🖤 a methodological playbook to root you in affirmative autoethnography as you contextualize your fears and deepen your (re)memory, intuition, and imagination
🖤 a manifesto template with(in) which you can (re)articulate the futures you are reaching for
🖤 9 weekly playlists, curated by g l o w z i and digital polyglot, to immerse you in the sonic dimensions of our collective reflections
(( registration closes monday january 5, 2026 ))
available access supports
🖤 living/breathing collective agreements
🖤 auto-captioned zoom gatherings
🖤 replays of workshops and story circles for asynchronous participation
🖤 scheduled bio breaks during each gathering with the possibility to leave/return to the zoom room at your own pace and as often as you need
🖤 invitations to engage with each gathering in any way that honours your needs (ex: camera on/off, silence, voice, movement, emojis/reactions, chat)
(( registration closes monday january 5, 2026 ))
my heart grows fuller as our winter 2026 cohort takes shape. everyone who has chosen to embark on this journey profoundly inspires me and i trust we will learn so much with and from each other throughout this season. if you have been waiting for a sign to join us, this is it! secure your spot within the clap back manifest(o) winter 2026 cohort before registration closes on january 5.
i leave you with nina simone’s suzanne performed live in rome, 1969:
with love + light,
the entirety of the clap back manifest(o) journey is informed by fugitivity, which i understand as the convergence of (re)memory, intuition and imagination.
toni morrison defines rememory as “recollecting and remembering as in reassembling the members of the body, the family, the population of the past” (2019, august 9) the guardian.
intuition as in viscerally knowing, understanding while releasing sense-making.
imagination as in weaving more fibres into the material of the present, folding time and space.
in the opening lines of be fierce, the eighth chapter of alexis pauline gumbs’ undrowned: black feminist lessons from marine mammals, the author asks what we can learn from “marine mammals [who] live with graceful ferocity, navigating treacherous circumstances daily” before prompting us to consider what “our bravest breathing” might be.