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 RICHAELโS PRACTICES
FOLK HEALING
Folk healing describes Richaelโs 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 workersโ 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 Richaelโs, community-building focuses on healing justice, building relationships, strategies, and power among healing practitioners and healing-oriented organizers.
CREATIVE PRACTICE
Richaelโs 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.