Womxn’s Work for Action

Why Womxn’s Work?

Creativity is liberating, as it calls on compassion to cultivate courage. We believe this is the most important work we can do.

Our mission is to be in a community where all gender identities are welcome and together we access co-creative energy for collective liberation.

The community practice of mindful art-making brings forth feminine wisdom, sewing seeds of transformation through curiosity, intuition, choice, presence, and possibility.

What’s possible?

Complexity is rich. Like art, depth and luminosity exists in layers and detail. Every work of art tells a story and conveys a feeling. What if we told the stories of our humanity, around the table, through each breath we take, with words, with colors, with each mark we make?

This is both aspirational and attainable.

If you identify as a white womxn...

We invite you to join us on this road to liberation by committing to (re)learning the history of this country and by engaging in racial healing. The same systems of oppression that built this country and continue to perpetuate inequity and suffering for BIPOC, also keep white womxn in the toxic loop of perfectionism, niceness at all costs, and performative silence.
We invite you to create, listen, learn, and share as we come around the table together. Compassionate, mindful, creative practice allows us to cultivate authentic presence, which counterbalances internalized racism. Curiosity and exploration bring new perspectives, ways of being, and transformation.
We invite you to shift your relationship with perfectionism and performance. Art brings expression, agency, choice, and the transcendence of limiting beliefs and practices. Through play, color, texture, form, shape, and being embodied together, mindful community moves us out of stuck energy and toward freedom.
We invite you to challenge classist and capitalistic structures that are deeply ingrained in our current society. Please pay the requested rate (or more)* for any and all of the programs and events we host.

If you identify as a BIPOC (Black Indigenous People Of Color) and/or LGBTQIAP (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Pansexual) womxn...

We invite you to say yes to your own voice, expression, and expansive ways of being creative and being you. Open to the mystery of feminine energy through art-making and mindfulness. When womxn show up for themselves, they are soothed and healed by the power of inner exploration.
We invite you to be nourished through community. As womxn lean into curiosity and exploration, wholeness becomes realized. Through this communal creative practice, so much is possible.
We invite you to join us on this journey in the ways and means that you are able to do so. As a micro-reparation and a clear invitation, please pay what you can* for any and all of the programs and events we host.

Why Pay What You Can For BIPOC or LGBTQAI?

Part of our mission is to collectively implement a Pay What You Can (sliding scale payment system) that reflects an anti-capitalist ideology. Currently, we offer a sliding scale to BIPOC & LGBTQAI.

We invite you to choose your own budget based on systemic oppression and privilege.

Before discussing the actual cost of services, I’d like to take this space to let you know what sliding scale means to Womxn’s Work. Our personal moral and ethical compass includes challenging classist and capitalistic structures that are deeply ingrained in our current society. A sliding scale rate of payment for services is one small way to take into account the layered opportunities and oppressions BIPOC & POC, QTPOC & LGBTQAI people encounter. We will not quiz you or ask you to prove anything, we trust you to have authority over your own complicated needs.

Other things to consider:

When I pay more, I know that I am helping the artist support themselves. When I pay in the middle, I know I am helping the artist cover costs. And when I pay at the bottom, I know I am letting my community hold me and support me. All of these are acceptable ways of participating. I recognize that some folks may not be able to afford the low end of the scale. Please let me know and we can work something out.

Consider paying less on the scale if you:

• are a person who experiences racism directed at you, or via systemic oppression

• are a Black, Indigenous or First Nations, brown, or otherwise non-white person

• are transgender and experience trans-related discrimination and/or violence regularly

• are gay/queer and experience related discrimination and/or violence regularly

• are eligible for public assistance

• have immigration-related expenses

• are an unpaid community organizer

• are a returning citizen who has been denied work due to incarceration history

Consider paying more on the scale if you:

• own the home you live in

• have investments, retirement accounts, or inherited money

• travel recreationally

• have access to family money and resources in times of need

• work part-time by choice

• have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education, gender privilege, racial privilege, class background, etc. Even if you are not currently exercising your earning power, I ask you to recognize this as a choice