Last night’s Kakuya Collective: Visionary Daughtering Webinar was pure love. We dedicating our daughtering forward, backwards and through, beyond biology, death time and into the unknown. We identified and described the prisons that exist between us and the people we daughter. We shared witnessed and experienced the liberation of our clearly and bravely stated desires. We broke the unspoken with our speaking. We held newborn possibility with our listening. We gave the permission we needed. We laughed and lit each other up. We are not nearly the same.
Below is a group poem we made about what we know we have and what we know we have to do with the freedom seeking clarity of our visionary daughtering. As you will see we experienced awe, gratitude and revelation. If you want to tap into the love check out next week’s webinar Sister is a Verb: An Online Intensive for Revolutionary Collaborators.
What We Know. What We Have.
by the participants in the Kakuya Collective: Visionary Daughtering Webinar
“this is the age of the daughter as sage”
-Kali Ferguson
i know i have it
i know i have love
i know i have been loved
i know that i have to show myself what it means to love and be loved on my terms
i know i have home radiating out of my heart
i know i have space to be human and heal
i know i have hands supporting me
i know i have oceans in me
i know i have a world to protect within myself
i know i have more than surviving in me
i know i have hope
i know i have to hope
i know i have a body
i know have to dance
i know i have to run
i know i have to rest
i know i have to sleep especially to dream
i know i have to dive deep to be satisfied
i know i have to give up my anxiety
i know i have to let go of my restlessness
i know i have to relax to love
i know i have to love my body and my dance!
i know i have to call my nana more
i know i have to listen
i know i have to listen more
i know that i have to envision myself more powerful than ever before
i know i have things in me i have never seen
i know i have a myriad of choices at any moment
i know i have a portal to the possible
i know i have to practice authenticity in everything
i know i have to share everything, EVERYthing, somehow
i know i have my own standards and I have to keep creating and honoring them
i know i have to stop censoring my feelings and share authentically
i know i have to reach out when I think I am alone
i know i have help
i know i have to vocalize my desires
i know i have to let myself grieve for all of us
i know i have strength in other women
i know i have ancestors helping me
i know that i have ancestors watching and claiming it as good
i know i have their wisdom all around me
i know that all is well and everything is working out for my highest good
i know i have safety and desire to give it to those who do not.
i know i have the transformative power of anger
i know i have things they call flaws and I have to call them beauty
i know that i have to live consciously
i know i have FOMO yet need to honor the space that is meditative and healing
i know i have the power of presence
i know that there is a time for all things, now is my time for me to make my voice heard
i know i have real power and that makes the patriarchy afraid
i know i have the power to make worlds i’ve not imagined yet (because i know i have us)
i know i have the powerful love of the matriarchs before me
i know i have wisdom to share with my daughters if I choose to sit still long enough
i know i have the ability to continually develop compassion for myself and others
i know i have to open in order for them to open
i know i have to love my mother better if i want to love myself better
i know i have to leverage my freedom in honor of her
i know i have to trust that my mother and my grandmother’s freedom is as real a possibility as my own
i know that seeking my freedom will in many ways give them permission to seek their own
i know that what is for me will be mine as long as i continue moving to make it so
i know i have been here before
i know i have been changed
i know i have a soul full of purpose
i know i have to let myself begin
i know i have been chosen
i know i have what it takes
i know i have us, the future we
i know i have to trust us
i know i have to write it
i know i have to do it
i know i have to live it
i know i have to follow through with it
i know that we were all specially designed to be here in this moment
i know i am complete and that feels real, especially tonight.
i know i have co-created something real out of the previously unspoken with y’all
i know everything will be OK because there are such intelligent and deep women here who are the next generation
i know i have never thought of daughtering as so powerful and important before tonight
i know that each of you have something really special to share and that i am changed by this knowing
i know that i am thankful to be here with you all
i know i have to do this more often!
i know i have learned so much from my sister-daughters here tonight
i know that we are the ones that we have been waiting for