opening the portal summer 2025 | a call for collective medicine

✧ Community,

As the earth tilts toward summer and the season of abundance approaches, I am reminded that true medicine is never created in isolation. The most potent healing has always emerged from collective knowledge, shared dreams, and the brave interweaving of our stories.

For the past few months, I've been tending this digital portal as a space for remembering, unlearning, and liberation. I've lovingly poured my medicine into these pages as an offering, but a portal is meant to be a threshold, a passage, a meeting place of many voices. And now, this space is ready to expand, to hold more than just my voice.

The Summer Portal is calling for your medicine.

I believe deeply that we each carry unique wisdom, made wide and visible through our lived experiences. The patterns you've noticed, the healing you've discovered, the portals you've mapped in your own journey of decolonization and remembering—these are medicines our collective needs.

This isn't simply a call for submissions. This is an invitation to co-create a constellation of healing knowledge. To weave together our stories, our art, our channeled wisdom, our poetry, into something that breathes with collective power.

Whether you identify as an artist, healer, writer, channel, conduit or simply as someone walking the path of liberation—your medicine belongs here. Especially if you've felt your voice marginalized, silenced, or dismissed in dominant spaces. This portal was created specifically to amplify the wisdom of Black, Brown, trans, non-binary, and neurodiverse voices—those who have always known that another world is possible.

Submission Guidelines

We are excited to feature transformative work that aligns with the energies of unlearning, remembering, and liberation. Before you submit, please review the guidelines below to ensure your submission resonates with the themes of the portal.

Soft Deadline: Summer solstice, Friday, June 20th, 2025

(Rolling submissions will be accepted until July 3oth when the portal is closed)

A Note on Reciprocity

I believe in honoring the medicine that others share. While this is a growing platform without substantial financial resources, I am committed to practicing reciprocity. Each published submission will receive:

• A featured spot in our Summer Portal collection
• Attribution and links to your platforms/work
• A modest honorarium as a token of appreciation ($20-$45, depending on submission volume)
• An invitation to our virtual Summer Portal gathering, where contributors can connect

This is just the beginning of what I hope will become a sustainable model of community-supported publishing. As our collective grows, so too will our ability to materially support the medicine-makers who share their gifts.