Luna Riparia

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Hi everyone, and thanks for reading. My name is Luna Salemme, I'm reaching out today to ask for your support in helping me participate in generative somatics's yearlong Somatics and Trauma program to expand my skills and leadership as a healer and organizer within my community.

About Me:

I'm a working class white trans woman, originally from Chicago, IL. I've done political organizing work around prison abolition, prisoner support, anti-repression work, healing justice, anti-gentrification struggle, and the liberation and self-determination of oppressed peoples since I was about 16, which is going on 12 years now. I'm currently a peer counselor and reentry case manager for a project of the Sheroes Community Based Research Team at the UCSF COE for Transgender Health called Girlfriends Connect. Girlfriends Connect provides peer-based reentry support for incarcerated transgender women in San Francisco. In addition to this work I am a consultant, healer, and am in training under my elders as an eventual leader in my spiritual community, Ile Ori Ogbe Egun.

The Benefits of Helping Me Achieve My Goal:

I think that there are many benefits to helping me access this amazing program

  • You are investing in my leadership development. As a young, working class transsexual woman with a passion for social change and community healing, I am committed to using my gifts to transform this world through organizing, healing, and direct support work. I get the chance to work with my own trauma and explore the was that I can expand and most skillfully use my power and leadership.
  • Investing in me is investing in my commitment to my communities. I am deeply in love with my communities and my main motivation for gaining the skills and training from the Somatics and Trauma program is to be able to bring them into the work that I already do, as well as create new ways that oppressed peoples, especially transgender women in community, can create new collective structures to support our healing from trauma. I am committed as always to lifting up the most affected voices in these projects and making the struggle against anti-blackness and white supremacy central to these efforts. I want everyone to have access to these tools and will do everything in my power to make healing accessible to those who need it.
What will it take?:

I'm currently trying to raise $3,262 to support my tuition for this course, but if you can't donate there's other ways to help! Please, share on Facebook, send emails to your networks, spread the word about making this opportunity possible for me. You won't regret it :)

About the Course:

From the course description:

"This course is designed for politicized healers, organizers, and movement-builders to engage in their own healing, learning, and embodied change. Politicized healers--such as coaches, therapists, and other one-on-one practitioners--will be able to begin or deepen their study and practice of somatics. For organizers and movement builders, it is a place to turn inward and engage with the impact of trauma and oppression in order to look outward again, renewed, reenergized, and hopeful. gs specifically encourage organizers who are a part of movements to end state repression (including criminalization, militarization, surveillance, imprisonment, policing, etc.) and building scalable alternatives (such as transformative justice), and those creating climate and environmental justice (including just transition, land sovereignty, environmental racism, etc.).

You are a good fit for this course if you are looking to:

  • Deepen in your path of healing and embodiment through an exploration of how trauma and the impacts of oppression impact your life and leadership;
  • Increase your understanding and cultivation of resilience in healing, leadership, cultural work and organizing;
  • Build your skills in supporting others in their healing and transformation--this includes a long-term desire to be a somatic coach, join the gsPN (gs organized practitioners network) as well as more effectively supporting colleagues and members;
  • Apply your understanding of trauma and healing in your organizing, campaigns and more; and
  • Experience more choice and freedom in your relationships, leadership, and contribution through ongoing somatic practice."

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You are a part of a growing network of people whose collective support makes generative somatics (gs) possible. gs offers embodied leadership development and trauma-healing to social justice movements. We prioritize the participation of poor and working class people and people of color; and choose movement partnerships with organizations and communities based on alignment with our political values and strategy, not on financial access and capacity.