Why JOIN the Culture Tending Commons?
Because you want space-time to be your whole being.
Because you desire to propagate antidotes to White Supremacy Culture (2001. Okun, T.)
Because you yearn to co-create a multi-racial, intergenerational, cross-movements community.
Because you seek useful and relevant resources to use in your life, creative practice, organizing, and / or work.
Because you are a Culture Tender.
Culture Tending Commons Equity Statement
We are committed to dismantling systems of oppression and supporting movements for self-determination.
We affirm the inherent worth and dignity of all individuals, centering principles of consent, autonomy, and agency while standing in solidarity with movements for land back, abolition, reparations, labor rights, bodily autonomy, and more.
We believe that true liberation is a collective effort, requiring mutual care and the active co-creation of a just world.
JOIN Our Community of Culture Tenders
We all are tired of social media. Its algorithms make discovery and community building exhausting, especially when our accounts get shadow-banned for talking about the things that are important to us and to our future.
That’s why over 2025, we will be engaging with our Community of Culture Tenders via the Culture Tending Commons.
We will be posing questions, articles, memes, and ideas and inviting subscribers to comment and engage in conversation. We want to harness our community towards developing collective wisdom and mutual care, aid, and support.
JOIN US in our pursuit of propagating antidotes to White Supremacy Culture. (2001. Okun, T.)
Subscription Levels
For all subscription levels (Free to Founding), you get access to the articles, conversations, videos, and resources we publish through the Culture Tending Commons. You will also get invitations to Three Peer Exchanges and a daylong Virtual Retreat in Fall 2025. All are ticketed events.
If you pledge at the Founding Member level, you also get guaranteed tickets to the Peer Exchanges.
About the Culture Tending Collective Founding Members
CRYSTAL MASON
Crystal Mason (one half of Tree of Change) is a dedicated activist, artist, cultural worker, mediator, and consultant committed to fostering spaces for envisioning and realizing a more just and equitable world. With over three decades of experience, Crystal's work traverses the intersections of race, gender, class, ability, sexuality, art, and culture. With a wealth of experience and a steadfast commitment to equity and justice, Crystal Mason continues to inspire and empower through their multifaceted activism, artistry, & advocacy.
VANESSA RODRIGUEZ MINERO
Vanessa Rodriguez Minero is responsible for coordinating the AllThrive Education team and developing a healthy work culture. Prior to AllThrive Education they worked in city government as a constituent liaison, led recruitment efforts for a national storytelling campaign on TPS and DACA, and supported grants processing at a philanthropy. They studied government and Mexican American Studies at UT Austin and learned about community care and vulnerable strength from their time as an undocu youth organizer. They believe that the tools and strategies for collective liberation already exist: in the hearts, wisdom, care, & imagination of BIPOC communities.
WENDY MARTINEZ-MORROQUIN
In 2018, Wendy Martinez Morroquin co-founded AllThrive Education in direct response to first-hand discrimination and violence she experienced as an unaccompanied, undocumented immigrant, and in gratitude of the healing and support she received from community organizations. Wendy has 7+ years of experience facilitating empathic learning spaces that enable courageous self-inquiry and holistic growth. She has trained hundreds of city employees, educators, and prospective adoptive parents in equity, inclusion, implicit bias, and cross-cultural relationship and trust building. Wendy holds a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies
from the University of California Berkeley, a certificate in teaching Yoga Therapeutics, & is a trained Restorative Justice practitioner.
JASON WYMAN / QUEERLY COMPLEX
Jason Wyman, also known as Queerly Complex (and one half of Tree of Change and a consultant with AllThrive Education), was born upon the Land of 10,000 Lakes on what E is coming to know as Turtle Island, who has settled on Yelamu, which is also called San Francisco. Jason's name means healer, or so he's been told since a young child, and they did not believe it until Eir father, Michael (Mike) James Wyman, and him mended their selves and one another as Mike died of mantle cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma across a screen and a country over all of 2020. What E has come to understand as the significance of his name is that healer does not mean healed or (even) healing. Rather, it is a positionality within the cosmos that allows one's self to change & be changed by all that unfolds.
