Queer & Polyamorous Death Cafe

​Queer & Polyamorous Death Cafe

​Join us for an intentional, group led space to dialogue, share questions, emotions, thoughts, experiences about loss, grief, and death, specifically for queer and polyamorous community. You are encouraged to bring something delicious to eat & drink ☕️🧁

​Hosted by:

​​Azí (they/them/theirs) is a mixed two-spirit Black and Indigenous being, among the many known and unknown Diasporas of Cherokee, Māori and Hawaiian descent. They are a trauma-informed multi-disciplined artist, weaver and doula of life-death-justice-and-pleasure. Azí has served from frontlines of Standing Rock as a Water Protector; to the tending of land, plant magic, and restorative somatic meditation; to the laying of hands as a Reiki Teacher, and Yoga Practitioner rooted in the sustained intersectionality of social justice. They have struggled with lifelong chronic illness, disability, grief and depression as an estranged AuDHD-er in a world catered to the comfort of the neuromonotony. With over two decades of practicing with the occult, as an ancestral seer, there aren’t many corners of the web left unstrummed. To further connect with Azí and their life’s work, you may find them on Instagram: @theecosexualaughra & @the___outernet

​​Alexis (she/her) is a death doula, end-of-life specialist, and queer artist who helps people improve their relationship with mortality (and therefore life). She provides practical education regarding advance directives, memorials, and legacy projects, and she uses hypnosis and other modalities to help people process death anxiety and grief. Her purpose is to celebrate interconnectedness and pay attention to goosebumps. @guardianfoxarts on Instagram

​​Theresa (she/her) is a death doula and a queer creative living in the pacific northwest. She's passionate about community grief tending, end-of-life preparedness, social justice, storytelling, plant magic, and astrology. @tenderofthealtars on Instagram

​​Jillian (she/her/hers) is a writer, witch, and aspiring grief and death worker. she has a passion for death rites, rituals and care, grief work, and ancestor work. jillian is especially called to the intersection where chronic illness and disability meets death care and planning, the sacredness of such care and planning in queer community, and how such conversations and space enables us to think and dream about how we want to connect, care, and be cared for in death and while living. @il[dot]af on Instagram

​​Erik (they/them/he) provides grief support and coaching in individual or group settings. They specialize in supporting and holding space for grief that may not feel acknowledged by societal norms and expectations, and in LGBTQ+, nonmonogamous, and polyamorous communities. They are called to this service through their own experience with the sudden unexpected death of a loved one who existed in queer and poly communities. Erik hopes to help you to move through this life appreciating that grief and joy coexist, and that each day is a gift.

​​Kaitlyn (she/her) is a queer Jewish visual artist, grief witch and death doula based in Southern California. Kaitlyn is passionate about tending to personal and communal grief, connecting with her ancestors, and serving the LGBTQIA+ community. She has a deep love for plant magic + Jewish mysticism. @thejewitchdoula on Instagram