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The Wisdom Institute is delighted to announce that we are hosting the Passing the Torch Preserving the Flame Ritual and Celebration to recognize elder African American women who are revered in their community for activism, advocacy and leadership. Torch Bearers will pass their torch to younger women committed to carrying the flame of quantum leaping and endless energy for liberation in the intersectionality of Black life!
Wisdom Institute is currently seeking the nomination of Torch Bearers to participate in this powerful and sacred experience. Selections will be announced shortly after nominations close.
Eligibility:
Torch Bearers are proven leaders, activists, and advocates who work in Detroit to actualize Healing Justice and Gender Justice in Detroit. They are African American or Indigenous women ages 55 and up who work diligently to achieve Reproductive Justice and what Wisdom Institute holds as its intersection:
- Access to affordable, clean drinking water
- Birthing Rights
- Housing Rights
- Bodily Autonomy Healing Justice through the lens of Ministry and Spirituality
- Art as Advocacy
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Torch Bearers in the above work have poured into other African American woman and will in ritual and celebration pass their activism torches to one in particular whom they are mirroring. Both will pledge one another’s support and challenge to preserve the flame of audacious, bodacious activism.
- Torch Bearers will be recognized as members of Wisdom Institute’s Wise Womxn Elder Council.
- Both Torch Bearers and Preservers will be invited to support the formation of a State of Womanhood/Girlhood Working Group that will radically redefine the City of Detroit’s Human Rights Department.
About the project:
Passing the Torch Preserving the Flame is a healing and gender justice project initiated in 2020 to actualize a water affordability plan in Detroit and build the foundation for a reimagined Detroit Human Rights Department. Passing the Torch Preserving the Flame project, now in its third year, commissioned Artist Healer Activists who are infusing artmaking, dance, storytelling and ritual to increase African American women’s visibility, the sacredness of our bodies, wholeness, decoloniality, and liberation for a Gender Just Detroit. Passing the Torch Preserving the Flame Ritual and Celebration will be held September 2023.
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