Trevia (TREE-va) Woods is a multiracial woman with Indigenous ancestors who has two decades of experience in bodywork, education and community-building. She has roots in the Midwest and Colorado and, after traveling the world finds herself back in America finding her roots and how she belongs in the world. Trevia supports people in unpacking cultural appropriation, community building, and helping people expand their capacity to hold many truths about our lineages so we feel more connection and belonging in these times.
Find Trevia at ManyTreesLifeway.com and Kin Keepers Haven and on instagram @trevia_woods
Please note there are a couple brief audio glitches in this episode and the audio changes a bit around 13 minutes. New platform = still learning! Thank you for your patience.
In this Episode:
-The importance of listening and learning when we’re new to social justice work so we can build up our nervous systems to handle the uncomfortable reality we’re living in.
-How looking to social justice mentors - especially Indigenous and Black women helps us see the work that’s already been happening and how we can contribute vs reinventing the wheel or getting into our savior complexes, especially as white people.
-The mental and spiritual disconnection from our history and the land illustrated by white folks planning to leave America because it’s a mess. AND the antidote to running away (hint: it’s community!)
-What Trevia learned from her Indigenous grandmother about joy and laughter as a survival technique to sustain us in apocalyptic times.
-How “It’s the most vulnerable among us who make us a community and make us who we are” and what we miss as a culture and in social justice movements when we don’t prioritize accessibility for disabled folks.
*A book Trevia references in the conversation is The Marrow Thieves, by Indigenous Canadian author, Cherie Dimaline.
**The Durham teacher Trevia references is Dr. Ronda Taylor Bullock and her organization is we are-nc
