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With her sun in Pisces, moon in Virgo and ascendent in Cancer, Germane feels most at home admiring invitingly cool, crystal waters or curled up daydreaming about her next travel adventure. As a liminal member of Saltwater Sojourn, Germane is excited to flourish in the revolutionary, idealistic and collaborative energies that are being fostered and supported. She offers support in actualizing each other’s dreams through her toolbox of strategic hacks, fundraising expertise and curatorial instinct that promotes social change and creative exchange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1627775675829-WX01QW0EYWPBT6JVQLOD/ade%CC%81+fave.JPG Meet the Waterbearers - adé oni | the Earthworm adé Oni is a gender-fluid U.S-born Yoruba child of Nigerian immigrants. adé is an afrosurrealist and multimedia eco-healing artist shapeshifting with the universe through sound, erotic breathwork, herbalism, nature writing, visual, movement, and fiber arts, queer farming and land stewardship, birth x death companionship, and presence. they are committed to wielding their creative energy towards the cultivation of resilient, communal economies, radical somatic healing and afroindigenous cultural recovery. adé is very lit about co-creating inside this illustrious SaltWater Sojourn collar system. they hope that this experience brings deeper sonic awareness and bodearthly love for the beings that come through to share with us. adé is currently growing up on occupied 5 Band (Occaneechi, Haliwa-Saponi, Catawba, Eno, Tutelo) Saponi Nation lands, some of which is known as Durham, NC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/bc1ad587-b7b1-4ce3-b22f-2cf41ec6ae40/Spring+Red+LOP.jpg Meet the Waterbearers - Mariah M. | the LightSower With Aquarius and Capricorn stelliums, Mariah meeting at the water feels like visiting an old friend and she welcome the wet sand ’tween their toes. Mariah has been a siren, calling out to their selves, past and future, and listening for the echoes of others, of their kinfolk. They moves through on this plane as a worldbuilder with abolition and community care at their center. M is a LightSower, ready to write, sing, light, ache and art on these Sojourns. Maybe it’s time to sink into the depths. Maybe inundation is required for transformation. One’s light can make life happen anywhere. Mariah M. is a 2024 Roots.Wounds. Words Speculative Fiction fellow under River Solomon and a ‘24-25 Diaspora Solidarity Lab Community Fellow. They are also he inaugural Artist-in-Residence at The Beautiful Project (c/o 2023) and a ‘17 Emergent Poet Fellow of the National Poetry Foundation* and Crescendo Literary. M is also a Watering Hole Fellow (2017, 2019), a BIPOC workshop for writers based in the South. They are Blackqueer and fat all the time, and femme when they feel like it. Some of their written poetry can be found via voicemail poems (Summer 2022) and the Neighbor News Pan-African News Service (April 2022). *M is one of the 2000+ writers who boycotted The Poetry Foundation due to their censorship of anti-genocide voices & lack of an anti-imperialist public stance. This boycott has since concluded as of March 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/a83e325a-938a-489a-a5e6-688b93d6ffbe/ld-export-1378f284-09102022.JPG Meet the Waterbearers - Brianna Daniels | the Dancer AIR sun & mercury, WATER moon, EARTH rising, FIRE mars & venus Brianna meets at the water transmuting in the direction of joy and liberation beyond all circumstances through improvised and intentional inspiration, body, sound, metal, and space craft. They be bringing my years of trained and intuitive movement, elements of the theater, and channeled insight to this space. Her desire is to bring the precise and resonant light filled medicine of joy into this work. This world is loud. Brianna’s joy has been their medicine to bring the mess to a mumble when I'm ill equipped to mute it. They aspire to bring and share that sweetness. Altering the altar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1627775045547-W7X4BX0GZL7U23P3LX2I/IMG-9311-insta.JPG Meet the Waterbearers - kiki nicole | the Weaver kiki nicole is a writer and artist navigating neurodivergence, disability, and worldweaving in Charlotte, NC. They are a Pisces Sun/Scorpio Rising/Aries Moon with Venus and Mercury in Aquarius. In the sidereal birth chart, they are an Aquarius Sun/Libra Rising. That being said, Kiki thrives in the experimental, with a penchant for forging deep connections, grounding in self retreat, theorizing reality tv show drama, and curating beauty. As a member of Saltwater Sojourn, they hope to cultivate relationships with other Black Trans and Queer artists of the Carolinas to forge a creative lineage of myth-making, risk-taking, and support, regardless of location. A recipient of fellowships from The Watering Hole and Winter Tangerine, their chapbook manuscript has become a finalist for prizes at Platypus Press, Diode Editions, Cave Canem, and [PANK]. They are working on a studio residency with Charlotte’s Goodyear Arts and a publishing fellowship with Graywolf Press. photo: Love Önwa Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1627774732099-3JI5BCAKXIRICC8IVFHW/ld-export-b94000d8-06092021.JPG Meet the Waterbearers - Destiny Hemphill | the Retriever Destiny Hemphill is a poet and ritualworker living with chronic pain in Durham, NC, and who has made homes in Tennessee, Texas, and Arkansas. A Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon, Sagittarius Rising and lifepath 4, she bears grieftending, grounding, creative structure-making, and full-cheeked smiles as gifts to Saltwater Sojourn. She’s honored to co-create a gathering ground for collective communion, unsettling, and cleansing with Saltwater Sojourn. A recipient of fellowships from Tin House, Callalloo, and Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, her chapbook Oracle: a Cosmology (Honeysuckle Press, 2018) was a finalist for the inaugural Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/250b8715-9d8e-47ef-b334-7acd8e5e8957/ld-export-bad816d7-09102022.JPG Meet the Waterbearers - Honora Ankong | the Wanderer Honora Ankong is a poet, writer, and educator from Buea, Cameroon, currently residing in North Carolina. She is the author of the chapbook, our gods are hungry for elegies (Glass Poetry Press, 2022), a 2023 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, and she has received fellowships and residencies with The Watering Hole, Lambda Literary, and Goodyear Arts. They have published poetry in various literary magazines such as Poetry Daily, Foglifter, Cream City Review, Lolwe, and others. She currently works as a Lecturer in the English Department at UNC Greensboro. Photo: Love Önwa Photography https://mariahmcreates.com/saltwater-sojourn/ros daily 0.75 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666747142269-VLKDZBK4ZSSSZU25FJAP/A+land+tour+walk+during+Revival+of+the+Seers%2C+a+rest+retreat+for+Black+queer+and+trans+artists+and+cultural+organizers.JPG Revival of the Seers - a sojourn over the land 8 Blackqueer folx walk along n a sunny and heavily canopied trail out of frame towards the right https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666747067243-20BOYWDXPS2IHLWN57LK/ld-export-f91b67a9-09132022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Rest as fellowship The 8 Seers are gathered, sitting downstage a giant tree, the sun shining from behind its trunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666747180892-EXM26FMI5VO5V030BMJU/ld-export-bf7a6603-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Gia Shakur, she/her, Creative Architect https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666747371426-TXI9CECTEBMERI71XLJB/ld-export-8e5ddf9e-09112022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Mariah M., they/she, Creative Architect https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666746942720-4HGL5VM81I523QYNWPCD/IMG_8790-insta.JPG Revival of the Seers - Fellowship as Divine The picture is giving “We are each other’s harvest. We are each other’s business. We are each other’s magnitude and bond” - Gwendolyn Brooks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666757546206-EFSN386K1EAC04AJ84FH/ld-export-4bb7c30e-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Ori Yarborough, she/they. Seer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666747134788-RITOLI55UCW1VJDGCF34/ld-export-c7c12216-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Honora Ankong, she/they, Seer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666747250528-ISPEJJRYIVJNEYYHFY0V/ld-export-65a906d8-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Ayan Felix, they/them, Seer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666757531043-GV0UXRTE21ZOWFISAHVV/ld-export-1378f284-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Brianna Daniels, they/she/be, Dancer of SaltWater Sojourn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666756226280-9CWWFR2JJBJMYWGYKWKH/ld-export-a767b08c-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Xhey Estelle Evans-EL, xe/xem, Seer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666747530611-QGG9AFB30USUSNI6HTLO/ld-export-8928da7d-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Janae Wiliams, anything but him, Seer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1666747152061-5PH78KH7C2428G2BML3S/IMG_8711-insta.JPG Revival of the Seers - Rest as Sankofa 8 Blackqueers walk long a path with sunshining through trees to light their way https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/05852e51-20f0-4e92-9112-0fc48790397a/ld-export-64e3fcbb-09132022.JPG Revival of the Seers - Make it stand out Photo cred: Love Önwa Photography https://mariahmcreates.com/mycv daily 0.75 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/13b2fb0a-1e37-45b7-841d-503dc2532515/CV+_+SS+_+2025.png CV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/c7302b49-37a0-4a45-94a6-dd00b026b2c7/CV+_+BGG+_+2025.png CV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/cd4477f8-c25f-4e15-bf84-22f990a106ba/CV+_+1+_+2025.png CV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/57da39d2-c935-4819-b944-7392a25022e5/CV+_+Me+_+2025.png CV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://mariahmcreates.com/seersalumni daily 0.75 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/32be429a-0511-42a6-8778-6ff310a72fb3/madylin.jpeg Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Madylin Nixon-Taplet she/her I capture souls & the magic of life..." NORTH CAROLINA based visual & aesthetics architect who specializes in Photographic Hyperrealism. I truly believe that every single human on this planet has something beautiful about them, even if they aren’t always able to see that within or for themselves. My goal is to show people their wholeness. Exactly and as beautifully as I see them. I live in the E T H E R E A L realm. My shooting style can best be described as Intentional Etherealism.The way I see the world has a rose gold tint with Black lace wrapped around the edges. As a New Orleans native, I’ve been in loving community with Black folx for as long as I can remember, and have always had a passion for advancing my people in whatever ways I can. For now, I just want us to see the magic within ourselves. Easily accessible & ever-evolving. Can be found at https://linktr.ee/loveonwaphotosor www.loveonwa.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/38b8a561-227e-4b9b-a64e-c55bb5dccf03/SpeculativeFiction_Mariah_M_2.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Mariah M. they/them @M_lightsower M. is a non-binary fat and femme when they feel like it, artist and cultureworker rooting in Greensboro, NC. They are presently the Guest Curator of Cultural Programs at SISTORIES, a Southern-based Black feminist literary magazine for the 2025 szn. They are the Lightsower for & a founding member of SaltWater Sojourn, a Blackqueer-autonomous radical artist collective based in the South. They are in perpetual search and creation of spaces where their fullness is held, honored, stimulated, and celebrated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/a795ff4c-2741-440b-bc8e-c56260a0c3b7/ld-export-2a571aa1-10162023.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Audria LB she/her @Audrialb Audria LB is a Black transfeminine filmmaker, poet, and interdisciplinary artist, based in Durham, North Carolina. Having published work in Lambda Literary Award-winning The Black Trans Prayer Book, she is currently a co-director on the upcoming Black Trans Prayer Book Documentary. Audria also serves as Festival Coordinator at the Hayti Heritage Film Festival. In these and other creative endeavors, Audria LB seeks to fill the world with dope Black queer and trans art, shifting culture for left and progressive causes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/0b01e6a4-e6a2-4b6f-842a-a27f738bfe5e/ld-export-65a906d8-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Ayan Felix they/them @strictfullness (IG) I am a Gulf Coast-bred movement artist, dreamy storyteller, and community organizer around food justice. I perform improvisational dance with modern and jazz styles with Southern Black American aesthetics of excess, slowness, and dirt. My practice is site-responsive and collaborative with spirit, people, and the ecosystem. Over the past 6 years, my meandering screendances and public performances centered Black Queer experiences and have premiered at Barnstorm Dance Festival (HOU), Houston Fringe Festival, The Movement Lab ATL, and freeskewl (NYC). Most recently, I've started to string together dance films into an embodied sex/gender/species education which I've been researching through burlesque, dreams, drag, and dance theater. I'm hoping to make a manual (or something to that effect) for those wanting to leave the planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/026ad078-0ea4-4a2e-9a21-bbb569f72c49/ld-export-58fa33a8-09042023.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Randi she/her @super_saiyan_ran(IG) I am originally from Charlotte, North Carolina and have recently returned after being away since 2010. I am a professor of English and Africana Studies. In my teaching and writing, I am committed to highlighting radical, Black feminist cultural production in the form of literature, film, essay and cultural criticism. I would hope that my teaching and writing would help advance a wider development of anti-imperialist politics in the service toward Black liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/a28c6f42-6ce6-4d49-831a-99ff73c6bca6/ld-export-619a20f3-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Ori Yarborough they/she @thestoryofoh (IG) I am a hoodoo, historian, writer, baker and lover of art. My work centers on connection to pleasure through plant medicine and preservation of stories and artifacts to show evidence of our existence . I hope that my work leaves us with more historic models of possibility and reminds us that we have blueprints while offering inspiration for our unique work in this time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/d290eec1-e525-4ea6-8edd-bfd95094eae1/ld-export-565aefc1-10162023.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Ashley Nickens she/her @laydeeashley| @sistorieslitmag (IG) Ashley is a literary artist, storysharer, and the founding director of Sistories—a queer Black feminist publishing and production organization. She is an Artivist in Cypress Fund’s Prismatic Artivist Residency (2022-2024) and a The Roll Up CLT Resident Artists Alum (2020). Born in Maryland, raised in Tidewater Virginia, and made a woman in the Carolinas, her work is grounded in her southeastern roots, and seeks to continue a tradition of Black feminist storysharing that uncovers, recovers, and (re)creates models of possibility across time and space. Read her writing at Black Femme Collective (2021), SISTORIES Literary Magazine (2021), and in the forthcoming issues of Rootwork Journal (2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/1ab513af-7432-4df8-9f00-aafe7044e64c/IMG_9634-instacopy.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Gia Anansi-Shakur she/her @giatheconconquerer Gia Shakur is a writer, exhibit curator and visual artist based in Harlem, New York. Her written work has appeared in Honey Literary, Brown Sugar Literary, Foglifter and Sinister Wisdom. Her visual art has been featured at the Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano Inc., FiveMyles Gallery, Artful Walls at Home To Harlem and the Central Court Building in Brooklyn. She is the director of Honey Head Atelier, the parent company of the literary collective Alligators, Bibles and Hussies and a Watering Hole fellow. She is currently studying Creative Writing at SUNY Purchase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/250b8715-9d8e-47ef-b334-7acd8e5e8957/ld-export-bad816d7-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Honora Ankong she/they @yungwestafricanpoet(IG) Honora Ankong is a Cameroonian-born poet, writer, educator, and emerging multi-disciplinary artist currently living in Charlotte, NC. They have an MFA in Creative Writing in Poetry and a debut chapbook, our gods are hungry for elegies (Glass Poetry Press, 2022). She has held residencies/fellowships with the Hurston/Wright Foundation, Lambda Literary, and Goodyear Arts. You can find their poems published at CreamCity Review, Foglifter, Poetry Daily, The Maine Review, Lolwe & elsewhere.You can find them on instagram @yungwestafricanpoet & twitter @honooraa & on their website honoraankong.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/79dbafbc-a235-4740-a351-86bda75985a8/ld-export-14b1fbd5-09102022.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Xhey Estelle Evans-EL xe/xem @xoxo.whetherwhich (IG) I'm Xhey (Shea) Estelle and I am a creative who experiments with representing science through art. That manifests as instant photography, paintings, mosaics made of found and recycled materials, plus art collecting and curating through gallery walls and playlists. My goal is to continue the precedent set by musicians and visual artists before me and force the ivory tower to accept art as science, making graduate study sustainable for those usually targeted by empiricist bullshit. To reach that goal I am steeping in endarkened feminisms and specializing DisCrit/anti-ableist & racist strategies to render the academy meaningless to how my life progresses because white supremacist settler colonial logic has no bearing on how I live or the happiness I am capable of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca16755a9ab95598379d635/57d8ff7e-9db9-4ef7-bd44-2262a98f93fe/ld-export-c55d4fa0-09042023.JPG Revival of the Seers | Alumni + Programmers - Ebony Fernandez she/her @slimpickenss(IG) I’m a Black af Charlotte native, born & raised on the West side. I live & love to absorb life like a sponge, then squeeeze all the goodness out on my notepad (or blog: Sober Sunday). My goal is to untangle my own string while showing other people that we are more alike than we are different. I believe that every time I raise my freak flag a little higher more of my people find me & I don’t feel so alone. 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