Rishi

🌊 For those of us shapeshifters who struggled to feel at home in default’s reality, fluidity and performance became the tools with which we sought out belonging.

🧙🏾‍♂️ With time, our means of survival — these very tools — emerged as mechanisms of community, purpose, and action.

🦋 For a shapeshifter like me, each season brings a new arrival, a further becoming. I get in touch with the me of the radical™ now through my positionality with the land, through my gender, in response to my culture, and for my loved ones.

꩜ This site attempts to capture what is across all these incarnations of me.

☕︎ If you’re new, the best way to get to know me is to check out my personal principles.

I’m happiest acting as an agent on behalf of creativity, community, care, and cooperation.

Here are some labels to describe work that I’m drawn to:

leadership coachperformance artist
arts educatorfacilitator and organizer

The label I like best is creature of connection. Come back later and these other ones may be different.

now

(updated 2024-2-18)

  • living again in San Francisco since November, in a house I love with people I love. if you’re around (and especially if you want to help me grow my poetry community here) let’s have tea
  • facilitating coaching groups! I’ve been hosting a men’s group through the winter and starting a new batch of group coaching for generational activists in the spring
  • discovering new joy in visual design
  • exploring where I can do performance art in everyday settings: parties, conferences, on weird internet spaces. primarily my aim with performance art is to invite folks to partake with me in playful and respectful disobedience
  • hosting everyday art club every month in San Francisco
  • (finally) getting my cpcc in the next couple months
  • my word of 2024 is service: how can I play big in what I offer to the world?