Jesa

I am Jesa Amascual. As a descendant from the Waray, Munsee & Irish; survivor of violence and healer of generational wounds; I approach my work through the lens of diaspora, ancestral healing, anti-imperialism, decoloniality and collective liberation. I found movement work when putting myself back together from the brutality I experienced during pregnancy within systems of systemic oppression.

This politic that became my own, is made possible by the lineages of Reproductive and Healing Justice and the queer, Black feminists that birthed the movement. My radicalizing incident burst open a portal within me, allowing me to change my shape around all things I’d yet known-- alchemizing my past into potent medicine for my queering, grieving, and joy--cultivating depths I’d fully thought were reserved only for others -- those I’d imagined were more substantial, deserving, lovable, brave, or worthy. And yet, here I am, somehow more free and still undead-- birthed through the endless ritual of change that gives way to futures full of promise for more love and more liberation, for more kin.

I am a queer artist, full spectrum birth worker, farmer, writer and futurist. My work, in all expressions, is intentional, punctuated, vivid, intuitive, and simultaneously cosmic and grounding-- aiming to nudge people towards their own personal magic. I believe deeply in reclaiming ancestral ways of being to build pathways to more just futures and that art is a catalyst for this change.