Queer Creative & Spiritual Retreat Space!
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I'm Myles E. Johnson, a 29-year-old Black queer artist and spiritual adviser living in Brooklyn, NY. I'm the author of LGBTQIA+ children's book, LARGE FEARS and my other work has been featured in Essence, New York Times, and The Advocate. I've had the pleasure to teach at The New School and speak at places like the MoCADA Museum and Schomburg Center.
My life's work has been about empowering and offering relief, both sociopolitical and spiritual, to the LGBTQIA+ community, especially those living at the intersection of race and class through my art.
My reason for starting this crowdfunding effort is an attempt to purchase and renovate this beautiful pink home located in New Berlin, New York so it can serve as an artist and spiritual retreat space for the Black LGBTQIA+ community. As the world turns, it has become obvious that there must be space for the Black LGBTQIA+ community to be able to restore, create, recenter, and reconnect. I believe this home could be a healing space in a time where so many wounds are being produced.
(1) All money would go to purchasing the home and other taxes/fees, and all other money would go into the renovation of the home since it needs a lot of work.
(2) All further money would go into paying the members of our community to create programs and workshops to be held there.
(3) And if for some reason, there is still a surplus of money, it would go into locating another space in the South to serve the same purpose.
(4) And finally, if this space is no longer available by the conclusion of the crowdfunding, it would go into finding another space to serve the same purpose in the Northeast.
I truly believe spaces that center and heal Black LGBTQIA+ people are necessary and it will serve everyone if we intentionally nurture the genius and beauty that in return nurtures the world, especially in times of crisis and despair like these.
My life's work has been about empowering and offering relief, both sociopolitical and spiritual, to the LGBTQIA+ community, especially those living at the intersection of race and class through my art.
My reason for starting this crowdfunding effort is an attempt to purchase and renovate this beautiful pink home located in New Berlin, New York so it can serve as an artist and spiritual retreat space for the Black LGBTQIA+ community. As the world turns, it has become obvious that there must be space for the Black LGBTQIA+ community to be able to restore, create, recenter, and reconnect. I believe this home could be a healing space in a time where so many wounds are being produced.
(1) All money would go to purchasing the home and other taxes/fees, and all other money would go into the renovation of the home since it needs a lot of work.
(2) All further money would go into paying the members of our community to create programs and workshops to be held there.
(3) And if for some reason, there is still a surplus of money, it would go into locating another space in the South to serve the same purpose.
(4) And finally, if this space is no longer available by the conclusion of the crowdfunding, it would go into finding another space to serve the same purpose in the Northeast.
I truly believe spaces that center and heal Black LGBTQIA+ people are necessary and it will serve everyone if we intentionally nurture the genius and beauty that in return nurtures the world, especially in times of crisis and despair like these.
Organizer
Myles Johnson
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY