Transcestors Garden Project

When I am dying, will you lay me out on the land and/or lay warm stones in the palms of my hands? Will you care about and for my trans body? After I die, will you wash and attend my body in observation of non-binary Jewish funeral traditions? I would like to be composted and returned to land that is lovingly tended. Grow flowers from my body year after year. Let me rest in land tended by community.

I am incubating a land stewardship project where this sort of community care work can take place and trans bodies can be lovingly reincorporated into the land where we live. I am seeking to center a love ethic, disability justice principles and decolonizing practices. I am looking for collaborators - both individuals and organizations - who are working at the intersections of land stewardship and community death care to serve as an advisory commitee. At this time, I envision this project being a membership-based all volunteer project. Some other needs for this project: permanent land access, a community death care fund, cooperative development advising, infrastructure sponsors. The project is currently based on Coast Salish land. I will update this page as this project progresses and I would welcome inquiries from those with similar interests.

Related to this, I am involved in some preliminary conversations about forming a non-binary chevra kadisha for queer Jewish community.