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Welcome to the unsponsored, unapologetic, undoing of the outdoor industry. Join the Terra Collective for our first annual, virtual summit!
Black folks and folks Indigenous to Turtle Island attend for free! Use coupon code: FEMKILL at check-out.
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Have you noticed how the outdoor industry is one unbearably long, drawn out ad for "manifest destiny"?
Have you ever felt invisible and unsafe in outdoor industry spaces that are “meant for everyone”?
Are you sick of corporations and brands claiming to care about DEI and sustainability, maybe doing a land acknowledgement on their Instagram posts and leaving it at that? No discussion of how they contribute to white supremacy and ongoing colonization and what they're doing to divest?
Are you worried that our society of endless extraction and hyper-consumption is driving climate chaos, but feel frozen and stuck as to how to meaningfully contribute to a more sustainable and just world?
Would you be thrilled to learn sustainable strategies and approaches rooted in environmental justice that didn't rest solely on drinking out of paper straws and buying glass Tupperware?
Are you ready to interrupt the urge to doom scroll and learn how to apply your unique, talents, skills, and gifts to a more sustainable planet and global community?
The outdoor industry emerged out of imperialist ambitions to conquer land and hoard wealth and resources. Charting so-called "terra incognita," or "unknown land" by way of mountain expeditions funded by European imperialist powers laid the foundation for "Manifest Destiny" and the ongoing colonization of Turtle Island that we're still witnessing and feeling the impacts of today.
The impacts of "Manifest Destiny" reverberate in our beloved National Parks too. Jolie Varela of Payahuunadu, founder of Indigenous Women Hike, water protector, community activist, and mutual aid organizer, has brought to light how places like Ahwahnee, so-called Yosemite, were constructed at the expense of the original stewards. This led to her campaign "Re-Think the Wild," in which she encourages us to interrogate the construct of "wilderness."
Historically, cis, white men like John Muir, Edward Abbey, Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and others, get undue credit in the environmental canon, but in their writing lies a pronounced dearth of any kind of critical, personal reflection on how they as white men contributed to the extraction and exploitation of the natural world they claim to love. With no mention of how protecting the environment requires dismantling white supremacy and ending ongoing colonization and all systems of oppression, their work is incomplete at best, and at worst, used in a modern context to justify national parks and public lands – an issue that now lives in our mainstream consciousness thanks to Jolie Varela’s activism.
Mainstream media, as well as our history books, have projected a very white and very cis, dude environmental narrative.
Despite the flakiness and lip service of neoliberalism and billionaires like Yvon Chouinard claiming to "save climate change" (*eye roll emoji*), the Terra Collective remains true to our convictions for disrupting mainstream environmentalism and steady in our dedication to building New Worlds rooted in regeneration, reciprocity, abundance, radical sustainability, and real community.
Five Weeks of Feminist Killjoy Propaganda is your opportunity to dive deep into feminist analysis and action, build community, and leave equipped with the tools and inspiration you need to be an agent of change in your sphere of influence.
We prioritize the perspectives and experiences of women, non-binary, two-spirit, and gender queer folks in order to highlight the depth and complexity of our relationship with the outdoors.
We honor the legacy of feminists and environmental activists who have shown us the way while simultaneously highlighting and uplifting present day leaders, innovators, visionaries, activists, and educators whose work teaches us how to reclaim our humanity from the desperate and weakening grasp of imperialist-white supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy as bell hooks called it.
We resist the oppressive under and over-tones of the outdoor industry. We aren’t soothed by corporate platitudes aiming to quell our righteous outrage at companies and brands that continue “business as usual” prioritizing profit over people.
scathing analysis of the white-dominated, self-satisfied, toxic masculine outdoor industry
Unique and original teachings to collapse old paradigms and mobilize and inspire new ones
A blueprint for composting outdated beliefs, oppressive conditioning, and overhauling systems that don’t serve us
knowledge, wisdom, and lived experience that will aid us in building a new world together
Encouragement and motivation for beginning and/or continuing your work as an agent of change
...there's a collective of activist-storytellers and writers, unabashed shit-disturbers, outspoken zinesters, socially-conscious astrologers, sustainability innovators, and humans who just want to live on a habitable planet free from systems of oppression who are EAGER to share their wisdom and knowledge with you...
...You're more than capable of rewiring your subconscious beliefs and narratives that stem from oppressive systems, so you can contribute to rewriting and reclaiming the narrative
...You possess a unique flavor of leadership that will allow you to affect change in your sphere of influence...
...You can take your power back from these oppressive systems that try to rob us of our agency and self-trust...
...There's a dazzling group of fellow feminist killjoys (who also don't believe billionaires like Yvon Chouinard should exist) who can't wait to affirm and celebrate your existence and ideas...
...You can access the like-minded community of anti-capitalist nature lovers (who don't have a single John Muir tattoo) that you've been dreaming of all while learning and expanding in a nourishing container alongside them...
Give yourself permission to finally tap into a potent, creative, buzzing community of fellow feminist killjoys who want to co-imagine new realms of possibility beyond racialized capitalism and create real solutions to protect our collective well-being, planetary health, and the sanctity of all sentient beings.
Complete with seven workshops led by our brilliant cohort of eclectic educators and system-disruptors, as well as three trauma-informed somatic healing and integration sessions facilitated by Terra Incognita Media co-founders, Erin Monahan and Christina Torres, participants will leave this summit invigorated, refreshed, and anchored in new ways of approaching sustainability and environmental justice work.
This summit offers an immersive and robust opportunity to learn and unlearn in community.
A total of seven workshops and lectures followed by Q+A and candid conversation, so you feel supported and connected.
A total of three somatic healing and integration sessions, so you can integrate the teachings in our workshops and feel resourced to move forward with your own vision and sense of purpose.
This is a space where you're encouraged to bring all of your multi-dimensional self. We all have something to teach and learn.
After the Black Lives Matter movement came to a crescendo in 2020 as a response to the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Nina Pop, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd, a robotic chorus of “we promise to do better,” and a surge of updated websites with a dedicated “DEI” section emerged. But now, four years later, in the aftermath of the performative allyship of the black square, we’re seeing these once in-demand programs slashed and “DEI” consultants fired proving once again that racialized capitalism will co-opt anything revolutionary and turn it into a marketing campaign. Declarations of “community” prove hollow and claims of “solidarity” are stripped of their politic.
As Ericka Hart says, “You can have all the social justice jargon in the world. What is your politic? How do you treat the people in your life?”
Pluto entered Aquarius on January 20, 2024, and will be stalking in and out of this revolutionizing, techy, collective-oriented air sign until 2044. Here, Pluto demands we go to unforeseen depths for collective transformation. It churns up from the underbelly what in our subconscious most needs to be looked at, examined, and excavated leaving no stone unturned and no inner reserves of power untapped.
As Yasiin Bey proclaimed in an interview with Recho Omondi on The Cutting Room Floor podcast, "...the reckoning is not only coming, it is here, from ends that the oppressor does not yet perceive."
Dominique Drakeford is a mother of two, a non-traditional environmental justice educator, independent researcher, and creative storyteller who has been a leader in reimagining sustainability for the past 15+ years. With a masters from NYU in Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Fashion, Dominique has redefined the landscape of conscious living while elevating conversations around colonial fashion systems theory. As a sustainable street style maven, she works at the intersection of community development, ancestral homage, and hip hop culture to heal our relationship with Earth and inspire well-being.
Dominique will be presenting, The Colonial Climate Crisis and Black Fashion Systems that Impact the Outdoors.
Jolie Varela (she/they) is a citizen of the Tule River Yokuts and Nüümü (Paiute) Nations. She currently resides in her maternal homelands of Payahuunadü also known as the Owens Valley. She grew up on the Bishop Indian reservation fishing and swimming the creeks with her cousins. In 2017 she founded Indigenous Women Hike, which aims to regenerate the relationship between the land and its original people, while consequently decolonizing the history of Indigenous territories. Her work has encompassed organizing countless hiking/backpacking trips and fly-fishing retreats, creating a gear library, mutual aid for her community, lending her expertise to environmental organizations, as well as advocating for water rights on her homelands. She also wrote the forward to Essential Muir (Revised): A Selection of John Muir’s Best (and Worst) Writings by Fred White.
Jolie will be leading From Performative to Substantive: How to be in True Solidarity with Indigenous Communities.
Rasheena Fountain is a Black writer, educator, and musician from Chicago's west side, now living in Seattle. Fountain’s eco-poetry and nature writing have been published in Austin Weekly News, ZORA, The Mountaineers Magazine, and more. Fountain received a Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public fellowship at the University of Washington for her digital storytelling series Sustaining For Us, a sonic storytelling experience and a public artist gathering centering artists—of color, queer, and queer of color— and how their art serves as routes toward sustenance, decolonization, and freedom within ongoing threats of white supremacy, climate change, genocide, and more. Fountain has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MA.Ed. in Urban Environmental Education from Antioch University Seattle, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington Seattle, where she is earning a Ph.D. in English literature and culture. Her forthcoming memoir Starfish Blues will be published with Chin Music Press in Spring 2024.
Through a Black feminist lens, Fountain’s workshop, Sonic Travel, Speculation, and Creativity: Lessons from Sustaining for Us, will intertwine sonic travel, speculation, and creativity as a roadmap toward freedom spaces for maintaining in our worlds. How can music and sound in their many frequencies move us? Where can sound art move us to? What artistic and sonic practices can help us unlock dream and freedom spaces that sustain? This workshop will involve deep listening, imaginative writing, and reflections on lessons learned through her Sustaining for Us project.
Rasheena will be leading Sonic Travel, Speculation, and Creativity: Lessons from Sustaining for Us
Diamond Jones is a culturally-empathetic professional social worker and family therapist with an MSW from Hunter College. As the founder of 5feettall, Jones offers mental and emotional health services centering Black women through various offerings like venting sessions, events, and robust resources. 5feettall aims to combine quality and accredited mental health care with affordability. Jones is also the founder of Good Form, a social work and rock climbing program through 5feettall, which helps folks use the outer world to understand their inner world. Often through rock climbing, community, and conversation, Good Form introduces new concepts of understanding, and facilitates the cultivation of individual and communal capital. From outdoor activities, cooking workshops, and social work, Good Form has assisted in improving the quality of life for over 15 students.
Diamond will be leading Do You Remember? A Workshop Inspired by Expressive Arts Therapy
Christina Torres (she/her/ella), is a Kawaiisu-Paiute descendant of Tejon Indian Reservation and Chicana. She dedicates herself to healing our connections with the land and our bodies through recreation and writing. Operating from the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape and Wappinger peoples, in what is now known as New York, her writing and cycling are powerful acts of reclamation and resistance. As the founder of Cyclista Zine, City Girl Rides, and co-founder of Terra Incognita Media, she advocates for mobility justice and rematriation, highlighting the importance of reconnecting with our surroundings for liberation and well-being.
Christina's work through Cyclista Zine, tackles the colonial narratives that have historically marginalized BIPOC, using zines as a form of resistance in cycling culture. Her work in zines disrupts conventional media narratives, promoting a culture of joy in defiance that redefines marginalized voices' representation.
At the helm of Cyclista Zine's workshops, Christina proves that creativity is accessible to all. These workshops go beyond zine-making; they're about sharing stories, art, and fostering community. Embracing a DIY ethos, they challenge traditional media's barriers, offering avenues for personal and collective expression. Christina's sessions empower participants to create new narratives that defy assimilation and challenge societal norms, instilling a sense of empowerment and belonging.
Christina wil be leading Owning Our Stories, Inspiring Change: a DIY Zine Workshop. See below for materials you'll need. She will also co-facilitate Toxic Masculinity in the Outdoor Industry.
Erin Monahan (she/her) is the co-founder of Terra Incognita Media. Her writing focuses on environmental justice, exposing and interrupting toxic masculinity, and advocating loudly for labor rights and unionizing in the outdoor industry and beyond. As a trauma-informed, anti-capitalist mindset + embodiment coach and a certified Trauma of Money facilitator, Erin also founded Vesta Business School to help fellow anti-capitalist entrepreneurs heal their relationship with money and business. As an astrology-obsessed, amateur tarot reader, she's been known to pull out her cards at the climbing gym and offer some impromptu guidance. She holds a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in Philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Erin will be co-facilitating Toxic Masculinity in the Outdoor Industry.
Britt Broekhaus (she/her) is a consulting astrologer, embodiment coach, and teaching assistant for astrologer Kelly Surtees. After quitting her PhD in food politics, she became deeply interested in the interplay between spiritual development and social justice work. Weaving together different modalities, including traditional astrology, somatics, yoga, mindfulness, parts work and insights from archetypal psychology, her work focuses on developing embodied awareness, re-establishing the connection to ourselves and finding deeper healing. Britt considers her coaching and consulting practice to be down-to-earth and empowering. In addition, her work is informed by intersectional feminist and anti-capitalist ideas, something she carries over from her years in academia. Britt lives together with her partner, son and cat in the Netherlands.
Britt will be leading Queer Planets: Finding Dignity with "Challenging" Birth Chart Placements.
Nicole Cloutier (she/her) is a multi-passionate Gemini who has been called many things — poet, professor, creative director, video game designer, most inconsistent yoga practitioner on the planet… but underpinning all that is the belief that words are magic and stories connect us. These days, she’s mostly a creative copywriter who can speak in strategic acronyms as needed (want to talk ROIs, CTRs, or SEO? She’s got you) and also consults the tarot as part of her market research. She approaches marketing from an ethical and anti-capitalist lens, while also acknowledging the necessity for financial stability. Knowing this, she teaches affordable (and free) copywriting classes in order to help purpose-driven people make money doing what they love. Beyond the written word, Nicole is also an avid paddle boarder, amateur surfer, and moonstruck snorkeler who finds bodies of water to be her deepest source of creativity, inspiration, and grounding.
Nicole will be leading Call and Response: An Introduction to Anti-Capitalist Marketing For the Environmentally-Friendly Entrepreneur/Creative Who Doesn't Want to Sell Out.
Here's all that you can look forward to at the summit!
with Dominique Drakeford (she/her)
In her 90-minute presentation and Q+A, Drakeford will be unearthing how the Euro/ Anglo-American-created global fashion industry is the ROOT of our colonial climate crisis, and how the genesis of textile infrastructures created our culture of unsustainable systems. Simultaneously, she will be exploring how the Black diaspora helped to create a rubric for fashion to be a socio-political vehicle for outdoor advocacy, as well as environmental justice.
with Jolie Varela (she/they)
Jolie Varela, citizen of the Tule River Yokuts and Nüümü (Paiute) Nations, water protector, environmental steward, and activist, will be offering a land acknowledgement alongside a discussion on the hypocrisy of outdoor environmentalist groups where she has experienced exploitation and tokenization, as well as what real, meaningful environmental justice work looks like.
In their 90-minute presentation and Q+A, Varela will share her perspective and expertise on land acknowledgements, as well as the problematic and performative behaviors she’s witnessed and experienced from countless outdoor environmentalist groups. Her dedication to authentic and substantive environmental justice work offers a roadmap for using privilege and power responsibly.
If you've been wondering how to harness your privilege and power for environmental justice (and what not to do), this is the workshop for you.
with Christina Torres (she/her/ella)
Alongside Christina, you'll embark on creating your very own mini zine. We'll engage in discussions about the power of owning our stories, leveraging personal experiences through zines as a means to share, connect, and build community. By acknowledging and embracing our stories, we access a wellspring of inspiration and insight, empowering us to champion change within our spheres of influence and communities. This workshop will underscore the transformative power of shared narratives in catalyzing both personal and systemic change, guiding us toward fostering a more inclusive and equitable society.
For this virtual zine workshop, participants are encouraged to prepare the following items:
-A selection of paper (any size, but A4 or letter size is recommended for ease of folding and handling).
- Writing instruments (pens, pencils, markers).
- Collage materials (magazines, newspapers, printed photos or images).
- Scissors and glue for assembling your zine.
- Any additional decorative materials you might want to use (stickers, stamps, colored paper).
- A computer or device with internet connectivity to join the workshop.
- An open mind and creative spirit ready to explore personal stories and communal experiences.
with Erin Monahan (she/her) and Christina Torres (she/her/ella)
In this 3 hour workshop, we'll explore the manifestations of toxic masculinity in the outdoor industry by examining the white supremacist, patriarchal sentiments littering mainstream outdoor media (writing, film, etc.). We'll take a critical look at themes like individualism, Himpathy, warrior complex, and Peter Pan syndrome, all of which were found in ample supply in the documentary "Free Solo." We'll examine and interrogate the ideologies of "Manifest Destiny," "The White Man's Burden," and even the concept of "terra incognita." This workshop is based on the essay, "Ambient Dominion: How 'Free Solo' Points to an Epidemic of Toxic Masculinity."
An open Q+A and facilitated group discussion will follow, so we can chat as a community and share strategies as to how to make the outdoor industry a safer space for all.
Attendees will gain in-depth knowledge about how toxic masculinity manifests in the outdoor industry, receive actionable advice about how to interrupt/disrupt toxic masculinity, develop tools for self-compassion and nervous system regulation, and leave with a grounded sense of confidence to catalyze anti-oppressive change towards gender and racial justice wherever you are within the outdoor industry, as well as your personal and professional sphere of influence.
with Britt Broekhaus (she/her)
This immersive workshop invites you to explore how certain planetary placements traditionally considered in “detriment” or “fall” are inherently queer, subvert societal expectations, and embody the spirit of resistance and rebellion. Guided by anti-capitalist principles and a commitment to challenging the status quo, we’ll reimagine conventional astrological considerations of “essential dignity” (a way of assessing the relative strength or weakness of planets), recognizing that mainstream astrology often reinforces harmful binaries like "good" and "bad" placements, which are constructs we aim to bend and deconstruct.
Planets in “detriment” and “fall” invite us to defy normative standards and embrace the full spectrum of our astrological signatures. We'll uncover how these planets that are technically “weak” are rich with nuance and multi-layered in their expression, always rebelling against what is expected from them. Through somatic practices and embodied exploration, we'll investigate the themes of belonging and dignity, finding ways to reclaim power and resilience in a world that often marginalizes the unconventional.
Beginners and advanced astro-enthusiasts alike will leave the workshop with a more complex and profound understanding of their personal astrological make-up, as well as practical tools to reclaim dignity, power, and resilience in the face of rigid societal norms.
For this workshop,attendees will need access to their birth time, date, and location in order to pull up their birth chart. We recommend visiting astro.com to familiarize yourself with your placements ahead of time and check to see if you have any planets in detriment or fall.
with Nicole Cloutier (she/her)
Are you a creative who's afraid of “selling out”? Do you want to promote your work online and IRL, but feel like a bug has crawled up your sleeve whenever you think about it? Do you wish there was a way to market and sell your work without being exploitative or manipulative?
Even anti-capitalist, environmentally-friendly brands, businesses, and creative projects need a good marketing strategy. Maybe you’re a potter, an herbalist, a jewelry maker, a zinester, a painter, or a screen-printer! Maybe you’re a climbing coach, photographer, videographer, mountain bike guide, therapist, nutritionist, or a vegan, van-lifer who wants to start a co-op!
What if I told you that it’s okay… even good… that you feel grossed out at the thought of sales and marketing? This means you have a conscience and that you can be trusted to do the very thing you’re afraid of: building a successful, sustainable, values-aligned brand and business!
It’s possible to maintain your integrity and anti-capitalist values and let people know about all the cool shit you’re making, and/or all the incredible services you’re offering. In this 90-minute workshop, experienced copywriter, poet, and multi-passionate Gemini, Nicole Cloutier, will guide you through exercises designed to help you create genuine, honest, values-aligned content that connects with your community, builds trust, and sounds authentically you — even if you don’t know what “authentically you” means yet.
Cloutier approaches marketing from an ethical and anti-capitalist lens, while also acknowledging the necessity for financial stability. You’ll be sure to leave this workshop feeling energized, inspired, and confident that your values and marketing strategy are not in conflict, but are in fact, in harmony!
with Diamond Jones (she/her)
Jones' workshop will include her signature offering, a "Venting Session," which engages drama therapy techniques to act out our emotions allowing participants deeper understanding of their insecurities, complete with "Emotional Jeopardy," an activity that uses the flow of jeopardy to create fun, yet safe space to discuss our communal experiences as individuals. Participants will leave the workshop feeling resourced, seen, affirmed, and connected.
with Rasheena Fountain (she/her)
Through a Black feminist lens, Fountain’s workshop, Sonic Travel, Speculation, and Creativity: Lessons from Sustaining for Us, will intertwine sonic travel, speculation, and creativity as a roadmap toward freedom spaces for maintaining in our worlds. How can music and sound in their many frequencies move us? Where can sound art move us to? What artistic and sonic practices can help us unlock dream and freedom spaces that sustain? This workshop will involve deep listening, imaginative writing, and reflections on lessons learned through her Sustaining for Us project.
As a BONUS you'll receive LIFETIME ACCESS to Feminist Killjoy Propaganda 2024's materials. These workshops and resources will be yours to re-visit over and over again to support you as you move forward on your change-making and healing journey. We're here to support your inner and outer expansion!
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FREE for Black folks and folks Indigenous to Turtle Island! Use coupon code: FEMKILL at check-out!
Early Bird tickets (from March 13 - April 1): $249, 2 month payment plan
Regular Pricing: $349, 2 month payment plan
A note from Erin Monahan, Terra Incognita Media's founder:
It’s important to factor in my position of power and privileged identities when it comes to the work I do and who has access to the offerings I host through Terra Incognita Media.
Christina Torres, my beloved co-founder and I asked ourselves, “How can we make ticket sales for this event as equitable as possible, come from a place of abundance, and ensure that it’s sustainable for us on an energetic, financial, material, physical, and emotional level?”
We were less than two minutes into the call when we concluded it doesn't align with our values to charge Black folks and Indigenous folks to Turtle Island for this event when Black people, particularly Black women, built this country, and we're hosting this event on stolen land. Plus, any freedoms we enjoy, or "women empowerment" we feel, is all thanks to Black women.
To quote Dominique Drakeford, one of our awe-inspiring workshop educators, making this event truly accessible for Black folks and Indigenous folks to Turtle Island is "...a small step towards equity in the direction of eco-reparations. Black and Indigenous communities should not have to pay an absurd amount to to attend events for unlearning, relearning, and decolonized teachings by Black and POC communities within predominantly white-owned, operated, and led spaces."
As a white woman who started this platform with the intention of disrupting "business as usual," living by my anti-oppressive values, and challenging the status quo of the outdoor industry, it's only right to make this educational and healing event free for the communities who are the blueprint of sustainability and environmental justice. Everything I've learned I credit to Black feminists, Black anti-racist educators, and Indigenous activists and educators like Ericka Hart, Ebony Donnley, Jolie Varela, Larissa Nez, Kenya Budd, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and so many more. This platform wouldn't exist without the ongoing learning and unlearning I receive through their books, workshops, classes, Instagram accounts, trainings, Youtube videos, and conversations. I'm in deep gratitude and debt to them.
While Ericka Hart points out how reparations can only be issued by the state (and we can and MUST petition the state for reparations for Black people), this decision is one small, imperfect, and incomplete way that we can materially and symbolically divest from the structure of racialized capitalism that conditions us white people to believe in a false sense of scarcity.
I want to give our community a chance to actively create reciprocity by being accountable to the privilege and power we hold, or don't hold. Reciprocity is about giving and receiving. The scales of justice and equity are devastatingly off in white people's favor, and it's beyond time we adjust accordingly.
White people benefit tangibly (through intergenerational wealth as one of many examples) and intangibly from white supremacy and capitalism, and it's our hope that this payment structure instigates more people to think twice about how we can do business differently as a collective. Being white shouldn't be the ticket to education and healing.
Ticket sales will be put towards paying our incredible educators and speakers first, and what's left over will be invested back into Terra Incognita Media, so that we can keep creating and growing.
Thank you deeply for being in our community and we can't wait to see you at the summit!
All of my feminist killjoy love,
Erin Monahan
Founder, Terra Incognita Media
We don't want to price anyone out! In an effort to acknowledge the inequities that exist in racialized capitalism, if you are in need of financial assistance or an extended payment plan please email: heyterracollective@gmail.com -- no need to justify or explain.
If you have the means, and you'd like to make a donation to Terra to help us stay afloat financially, you can send a donation of any amount via Venmo @erin-monahan1002 or visit our donation page here.
(Exact Times are TBD)
Wednesday May 22, 2024: “From Performative to Substantive: How to be in True Solidarity with Indigenous Communities” with Jolie Varela (11am CT - 2pm CT)
Thursday May 23, 2024: Somatic practice and Integration facilitated by Erin Monahan and Christina Torres (6pm CT - 8pm CT)
Saturday May 25, 2024: The Colonial Climate Crisis and Black Fashion Systems that Impact the Outdoors with Dominique Drakeford (10am CT - 11:30am CT)
Wednesday May 29, 2024: Call and Response: An Introduction to Anti-Capitalist Marketing For the Environmentally-Friendly Entrepreneur/Creative Who Doesn't Want to Sell Out with Nicole Cloutier (5pm CT - 7pm CT)
Friday May 31, 2024: Owning Our Stories, Inspiring Change: A DIY Zine Workshop with Christina Torres (11am CT - 2pm CT)
Sunday June 2, 2024: Toxic Masculinity in the Outdoor Industry presented by Erin Monahan and Christina Torres (11am CT - 2pm CT)
Tuesday June 4, 2024: Somatic practice and Integration facilitated by Erin Monahan and Christina Torres (6pm CT - 8pm CT)
Friday June 7, 2024: Queering Astrology with Britt Broekhaus (10am CT - 12pm CT)
Friday June 14, 2024: Do You Remember? A Workshop Inspired by Expressive Arts Therapy with Diamond Jones (12pm CT - 1:30pm CT)
Thursday June 20, 2024: Somatic practice and Integration facilitated by Erin Monahan and Christina Torres (6pm CT - 8pm CT)
Friday June 21, 2024: Sonic Travel, Speculation, and Creativity: Lessons from Sustaining for Us led by Rasheena Fountain (6pm CT - 8pm CT)
We’ve not been too impressed by what’s out there in terms of conferences, summits, and the like in the outdoor industry and felt it was time for an unapologetic, unabashed feminist spin. Five Weeks of Feminist Killjoy Propaganda is our offering to the collective altar. We're cross-pollinating at the intersection of environmental justice, somatic healing, and feminist, anti-racist analysis.
Erin Monahan and Christina Torres, co-founders of Terra Incognita Media.
Terra Incognita Media is the brain-child of Erin Monahan, which she founded in 2015 after being sick of the rampant toxic masculinity in mainstream outdoor media. Christina Torres joined the team as a co-founder in 2021.
Terra Incognita Media is a completely independent, feminist media outlet that provides a feminist response to the outdoor industry. We are supported solely by our readers who want to burn down oppressive systems and build something new just as much as we do. This is our contribution to a feminist future that is anti-patriarchal, anti-white supremacist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist.
Our content, podcast, workshops, and events protest settler colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy. We strive to instigate meaningful discourse that leads off the page and catalyzes political action.
We seek to raise the level and depth of discourse happening in the outdoor industry. We prioritize women, non-binary, queer, trans, and two-spirit voices in order to highlight the complexity of our relationship with natural spaces.
Wednesday May 22 - Friday June 21
Absolutely! You’ll have lifetime access to the recordings (or as long as Terra is around, which we hope is forever and ever!) The recordings will be uploaded to Podia 72 hours after the event ends.
Early bird pricing is $249 through April 1st.
After that regular pricing is $349. Payments can be made in two monthly installments.
In an effort to acknowledge the inequities that exist inside of racialized capitalism, this event is FREE for Black folks and folks Indigenous to Turtle Island. Use coupon code: FEMKILL. (We trust our community will use this code appropriately).
Extended payment plans and financial assistance are available, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please email: heyterracollective@gmail.com -- for assistance, no need to justify or explain.
We don’t offer refunds, but we will consider them on a case by case basis. We trust that you’re making an informed choice with this investment. We ask that you deeply consider that we’re an independent, small, feminist organization and rely on these funds to sustain our platform, pay our speakers/collaborators, and the fees associated with running an event like this. Thank you in advance for deeply considering your capacity as well as ours. If you have any concerns or questions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us via email: heyterracollective@gmail.com
Have questions? Email Erin and Christina at heyterracollective@gmail.com