PMS is honored to have Kale Mays sharing his brilliance & guest facilitating a knowledge share with us!
We Live in a Place
Where are you? How did you get here?
As land stewards, we are constantly swimming in questions of how to best honor the land we are growing on. However, in the swirl of seed starting, harvest, and medicine-making it’s easy to get lost in the swirl of the day-to-day. Kale asks us to step back and re-contextualize our existence and resistance on slices of soil that contain untold layers of bones, blood, sweat, and tears. In this workshop, we will explore methodologies of exploring the deep geological histories of the ecosystems we grow medicine on. We will also hold stories about the enslaved African people who laid the infrastructural foundations for farming in upstate NY, and their journeys to self-liberation from plantation agriculture by any means necessary.
Kale Mays…
(he/they) is a deep city memory worker who seeks to repair our relationships to this hyper-settled land on which we've experienced both bondage and freedom, greeting the spirits who peer out from the cracks in the concrete. They are a descendant of enslaved and self-liberated african people in the black soil territories of south carolina, virginia, florida, and arkansas. Their lowcountry ancestors joined with Mvskoke relatives to resist the US government and became known as "Seminole". They draw their knowledge of territory from ecosystem, elders, and archives -- diving deep into the realm of traditional research, then pulling out to ask elements, ancestors, and more-than-human kin which stories are ready to be shared.
A Virtual Event Series
Tuesday May 14th 7-9 PM EST
*Please note that these events are for PMS students (enrolled or alumni), and other PMS guest facilitators ONLY!