The time to
wage our love
politic is now.
- RICHAEL FAITHFUL
Faithful has been in liberation movements for twenty years. They are trained as a community organizer, licensed as a movement lawyer, initiated as a folk healer, seasoned as a strategist and facilitator, and celebrated as a writer and experiential artist. They are currently a Master of Divinity candidate at Starr King School of Ministry.
RICHAEL FAITHFUL (THEY/THEM) IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY HEALING ARTIST AND STRATEGIST
CULTURE
CONSULTING
Culture-making is about how we create, nurture, and repair our relationships to one another inside the collective purpose of why folks come together
MORE OF RICHAEL’S PRACTICES
FOLK HEALING
Folk healing describes Richael’s shamanic practice rooted in the Black U.S. southern tradition of conjure. Richael, as a practitioner, is most notable for their ancestral mediumship, ritual creation, spiritual care, and unique form of energy healing.
MOVEMENT LAWYERING
Richael practices as a movement lawyer by supporting other liberation workers’ basic legal needs, by providing direct action legal support, by engaging in political work with other movement lawyers, and as a part of their conflict and repair work
HEALING JUSTICE
With twenty years experience Richael’s, community-building focuses on healing justice, building relationships, strategies, and power among healing practitioners and healing-oriented organizers.
CREATIVE PRACTICE
Richael’s interdisciplinary creative practice makes evocative healing ritual radically accessible. As a producer and performance artist, they enjoy playful experimentation with the themes of embodiment, folklore, liberatory visions, and radical love.