articles

Balajee, S. S. (2018) Dear Shanthi. Othering & Belonging Journal.

Balajee, S. S. (2018) An Evolutionary Roadmap for Belonging and Co- Liberation. Othering & Belonging Journal.

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Queerness and Queering (crib sheet no. 1)

Description: An introduction to ‘expansive queerness’ and its medicinal qualities for interrupting colonizing structures and healing separation.

Kin (The Somatic Scribing Podcast, As the Crow Flies Design, 2023)

Since meeting in 2018 through the GTDF collective, Sonali Balajee, Sarah Amsler, Dani d'Emilia and Kate Morales have been rolling deep together, including in collaboration with Our Bodhi Project.  We’ve dubbed ourselves the Altared State collective, (that’s altared with an A) and apart from taking care of one another across multiple borders and oceans, we do work collectively that orbits around queer ecologies & decolonial embodiments.  That is to say, we make experiments of our bodies and their metabolic entanglements, we play with relationality in an animist way that seeks textures of belonging and moves ritually with land and our non-human relatives, we imagine kin and kinship through all kinds of queer lenses and have a really expansive take on the erotic.  In this conversation we talk about queerness as a placeholder for what contains the wholeness of us and our complexity, the path from queerness, wholeness, collective health, and what it means to aspire to be social naturopaths.  We open the axis of the spiritual and the political and the artistic approaches to “social justice” in this moment of history, and why it’s most practical to make record of all these ways of being through visual writing systems.

Embodying Belonging and Co-Liberation: Strengthening Our Movements and Ourselves (Shift Network, 2019)

This interview is part of the Winter of Wellness Summit, a free online event featuring top wellness experts speaking on optimal health for your whole being. For more information, please visit winterofwellness.com. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.

On Spirituality and Belonging: A conversation with Sonali Sangeeta Balajee (Othering and Belonging Institute, 2017)

What does spirituality have to do with belonging? What are we missing when trying to identify the root causes of suffering and inequity? How do we remedy collective suffering as a society? These are some of the questions Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, a Senior Fellow at the Haas Institute (now Othering and Belonging Institute), has been exploring for years through her work in Portland with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity. In this interview she talks about her work, and specifically what she’s doing as part of her fellowship.”