Within the practice of anti-racisting is the ever-changing and profoundly healing work of trust.

Throughout our relationship, "we've worked to challenge our inner "fairness police", the voice telling us that trust is as simple as just "meeting each other halfway”. We have so much in common, so much that might appear as sameness: As kids, we both trained intensely in western concert dance, we both moved away from this training and toward experimental performance making in our twenties, we both became company directors of social justice oriented performance collectives, and we both understand our calling as teachers as path to cultivate care in community.  All of this shared experience has provided a powerful access point for us to deal directly with the disparate ways that racism has impacted us. The process of building genuine interracial trust has meant taking the time to hold the realities of racialized experience within and between us: racist disparities in intergenerational wealth accumulation and health outcomes, disregard for the safety of Black and Brown bodies, minority stress and racial battle fatigue in historically white institutions, and white supremacist ideals for bodies, movement, and healing practices. As we build trust between us again and again, we understand that our work, just like our relationship, must not be guided by sameness or “fairness” but instead by an ethic of care. Here are some ways we practice care in our relationship and in our offerings: