Black Moms Surf the Cosmos.

Creating Sanctuary for Black Mages is the ultimate goal.

Uati
7 min readJun 8, 2023
collage work in progress by me © Whitney Sparks 2023 (IG @nomadonnandchild)

As of yet I envision it two ways:

1) As a campus of sovereign real estate, owned and collectively operated, featuring beautiful, functional, fully equipped accessible and low to no cost living spaces as well as spaces for various retreat activities such as beach front and forest access, gardens and orchard, laboratory, spa, state of the art kitchen; art, recording, and dance/movement studios; and so forth.

2) Alternatively, direct reparations and mutual aid hold the power to create sanctuary for Black Mages across time and space, giving life to a multitude of sanctuaries within Black mages’ existing homes and communities and ecosystems in many places around the world at once, thus eradicating numerous potential barriers to access.

change.org/blackmages

[Especially] for other Black and Indigenous mages to reach the healing that we dearly deserve and even desperately need. If I had not been displace soooooooooo many motherfucking times. If I had had a home of my own all this time… Not only would I have had the space and peace (if not the time bc that may vary with work and responsibilities and requirements maybe in having and keeping a home) to pursue my own healing along a way more fluid and even direct…

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Uati

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