Dandelion

What is Dandelion and Persistence Programming?

Dandelion is our new persistence programming and collective effort to focus on non-binary, transgender, and queer students while centralizing marginalized identities within our own community. Dandelion is inspired by writer, activist, queer, black feminist, adrienne maree brown and her book Emergent Strategy According to her “Dandelions are often mistakenly identified as weeds, aggressively removed, but are hard to uproot.” And they represent “Resilience. Resistance. Regeneration. Decentralization."

Much like dandelions, our non-binary, transgender, and queer communities are seen as weeds and we persist and continue to exist despite continued efforts to uproot us. Dandelions have many healing properties and when severed, have the ability to grow into many new plants. As they are continued to be uprooted they continue to find new ways to grow.

Dandelion is a platform to celebrate our resiliency, resistance, and regeneration while acknowledging who we have historically left behind. With this program, we actively center those in the margins so that we can collectively continue to persist and strengthen our roots.

Past Programs

Queer Ancestors in the Making facilitated by Sienna Rose (they/she)

Tues Oct 26, 2021 5:00-6:30 PM PST
Join Zoom Meeting: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/81529682582
Meeting ID: 815 2968 2582

People often say in order to know where you’re going, you have to know where you come from.But what happens when you don’t know where you come from due to erasure, assimilation, and colonialism? And what if you don’t know who to honor in your day to day practices? As queer people from various backgrounds, sometimes it feels as if we are the only ones in our family or community who identify the way we do or live as the beautiful queer beings we are.This workshop will be a deep swim into what it means to be a living ancestor and how to honor our queer ancestors in order to know where we are going and who we want to be. This is a workshop that will be a collective space for healing, sharing, and creating practices to remember where we come from. We are mycelium, we are roots, we are the dandelions sprouting again and again.

Sienna Rose (they/she) is a Portland & D.C. based queer mixed Chicane facilitator, educator, community builder, healer, and writer with an ethnic studies and transformative justice background. Sienna Rose engages with nature and creative strategies to ripple small movements in order to incite collective change. Follow Sienna: bit.ly/3oTSDLK