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Sustaining Justice: Maintaining Hope and Conviction for the Long Haul
Co–Keynote Address (alongside adrienne maree brown and Aurora Levins Morales for Kehilla Community Synagogue) (c) Naomi Ortiz, April 2022
“…we often come to the work of social justice from a place of deep wounding, where we have witnessed or experienced the harm of injustice….What to do with this wounding? We may try to create a home for it in our political understandings or the values we aspire to, but does it ever really rest easy there?”
About Place Journal Poetry Publication
Two poems have been published in About Place Journal’s When We Are Lost / How We Are Found.
Poetry, Queerness, Disability Justice
A poetry reading sponsored by the Autistic Women’s and Non-binary Network as part of their #LiberatingWebinars.
To Dance With Our DNA
As a mixed person with Indigenous, Latinx, and white heritage, I’ve become practised at acknowledging the historical complexities that live within my own body.
Poetry Finalist for the home(body) project by Cid Pearlman Performance
Cid Pearlman Performance is delighted to announce the four poets whose work will be featured in the upcoming dance/video/art installation (home)Body, which premieres at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in January of 2022.
Naomi Ortiz – Border Narrative Grant Awardee
Ortiz is a 2021-2022 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Border Narrative Grant Awardee for her multidisciplinary project, Complicating Conversations.
Sustaining Spirit Book Discussion Guide
This guide is for social justice activists, book groups, social workers, educators, organizers, and individuals to discuss their own relationship with self-care.
Witnessing is Grief Work
Witnessing is grief work. Witnessing is more than observing, more than watching. I am not unaffected by what I witness – I am not disconnected from the land, community, and world.
7 Types of Self-Care
I’ve been needing inspiration when it comes to self-care, so I went back to 7 types I identified after interviewing a diverse group of 30+ social justice activists.
Can we practice self-care and still seek social justice?
In December, Adrienne Lauby invited me on the KPFA radio show, Pushing Limits, to discuss self-care. We chatted about living in times of political crisis, alternatives to self-sacrifice. Discussing what self-care is, and small doable ways to bring self-care into our lives.
Nurturing the Diverse Soul
From the episode, my response to a young woman of color who asked how to keep showing up in activist communities where you want to be, but don’t feel safe.
Why I No Longer Provide Free Disability Access Advice
My strength is not in the labor of telling people how to do the work, but through supporting folks to figure out the ingredients that they can choose to enrich their soil in which true solidarity can grow.
Disabled Artist Naomi Ortiz Re-Imagining Worlds: Latinx Spaces Profile
Ortiz offers that being spiritually grounded means returning again and again to her body and to land. The nonhuman realm is critical to her artistic practice, helping her ask the question: who are my helpers that are nonhuman?
AZ People’s Report Podcast
On this podcast we discuss self-care for activists, using assistive technology to share about self-care (hear about presenting via robot) and disability access in activist communities.
The place for our wounding is the dirt under our feet: Disability justice, embodied activism and taking care of each other
In this episode, artist, poet, writer and facilitator Naomi Ortiz speaks to the intersection of place, ancestors, activism embodiment and disability justice. Naomi is a Disabled, Mestiza (Latina/Indigenous/White), raised in Latinx culture, living in the U.S./Mexico borderlands.
Crip wisdom, Gender and Self-Care for Social Justice
In this episode, the amazing Naomi Ortiz discusses her contribution to the new anthology “Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People,” edited by Alice Wong.
The First Robot In the Family
When I applied to present at the Disability Intersectionality Summit to speak on, Mending Spirits: Disabled Mestiza Self-Care, the last thing I thought about was how this topic would come across from a robot.