Virtual Nepantla
Botanica Nahualli began in 2018 as an online spiritual shop rooted in Mesoamerican culture; it has evolved into a digital ghetto where we (nepantlerxs) turn toward spirituality and art in search of rēsistance and liberation.
Radical Imagination is Our Responsibility
We are border-dwellers living in the aftermath of colonialism. Embedded in our projects is our vision of a more equitable future.
Wachale Cineteca
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Liberating our minds through an decolonial cinematic movement and circumventing gatekeeping forces.
Rooted Goods
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Rē-establishing our connection to the earth, and strengthening our communities in the process.
MendoMuscle
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Smoothies, suppliments, and cafe for every-body. We are a registered transgender safe space in Ukiah, California.
Borderlands Sanctuary
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Enter a space at the center of the margins. Find face, heart, and spirit in a radical elsewherē.
“Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.”
—Gloria Anzaldúa
“Progressive social movements do not simply produce statistics and narratives of oppression; rather the best ones do what great poetry always does: transport us to another place, compel us to relive horrors and, more importantly, enable us to imagine a new society. We must remember that the conditions and the very existence of social movements enable participants to imagine something different, to realize that things need not always be this way…In the poetics of struggle and lived experience, in the utterances of ordinary folk, in the cultural products of social movements, in the reflections of activists, we discover the many different cognitive maps of the future, of the world not yet born.”
—Robin D.G. Kelley
“Robin D.G. Kelley reminds us that there is a point where struggles for social justice have to go beyond "keepin' it real," they need to "make it surreal.””
—Lisa Marie Cacho
