What if dreaming was more than just rest, but a revolutionary tool for healing, imagination, and collective liberation?

In this expansive conversation, I’m joined by Kelsey Daniels—a self-described artist, organizer, and baddie scholar from Southeast San Diego—who reminds us that dreaming is more than rest: it's a radical, ancestral practice of reclaiming life beyond survival.

We explore the role of creativity in activism, the importance of building community rooted in interdependence, and how art can serve as both a personal ritual and a collective offering. Kelsey shares stories from her own journey—launching the Black Dream Experiment, creating mutual aid infrastructures, and rediscovering forgotten ideas with new depth.

Whether you're reimagining your relationship to community, to creativity, or to yourself—this episode invites you to soften into the possibility of dreaming as liberation.

Key Takeaways:

• Why reclaiming dreams and desires is essential to ancestral wellness and personal liberation

• How mutual aid invites interdependence, trust, and radical community care

• The power of creativity as a healing process beyond performance or productivity

• How sustainable activism starts with honoring your unique role in collective transformation

• The sacred practice of returning to your own ideas with compassion and grace

To learn more about Kelsey go to their website: kelseyshere.com. And be sure to follow them on Instagram: @‌andsheshere_ and @‌blackdreamexperiment

Timestamps:

• 14:48 – Meet Kelsey: Baddie scholar, social organizer, and multidisciplinary creative

• 15:51 – Dreaming and desire as tools for ancestral healing and liberation

• 19:53 – Building Black healing spaces like “The Sit In” in response to media trauma

• 30:04 – Revolution beyond protest: imagining sustainable, life-affirming systems

• 39:52 – Mutual aid as radical care: redefining support and solidarity

• 44:47 – Dreaming into cooperative, creative spaces that honor process over product

• 55:27 – Revisiting your past words and ideas as an act of grace and reclamation

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