NINA Collective

It is easy to become overwhelmed by everything that deserves our concern.

Cornelius Minor of The Minor Collective offers another question: What is actually within our influence?

That does not mean ignoring larger systems. It means identifying where our choices, relationships and actions can create movement now.

Our CHOIR, home to thoughtful and equitable conversations like this one, can be accessed via the link in our bio!

Too often, conversations about trans lives begin and end with struggle.

In our Trans Joy conversation, Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford offers another place to begin: discovery, expression, community and joy.

There is power in having spaces where people can explore who they are without needing to turn that exploration into an argument for their humanity.

Sometimes our best teachers are not found in a training room.

Cornelius Minor of The Minor Collective reflects on listening through jazz and hip hop and what music can teach us about attention, relationship and responding to what is happening around us.

Where did you learn to listen?

Most of us move through multiple ecosystems every day.

We may be a leader in one space, a caregiver in another, a learner somewhere else and a person who simply needs support in another.

Deepa Iyer reminds us that we do not have to play the same role everywhere.

Knowing what role a particular ecosystem needs from us can change how we show up.

Belonging should not require constant performance.

In our Trans Joy conversation, we explored what it means to experience community without having to continually prove, explain or edit who we are.

Belonging becomes real when people have room to arrive more fully.

That is something we can practice together.