Luz is an ordinary superhero. A native Texan, currently living in the Caribbean. They are a non-binary, wisdom and medicine keeper, making medicine of  many varieties ranging from:

 

• liberatory writing as an author. journalist, spoken word artist and playwright

• filmmaker and visual artist

• medicine keeper and ceremonialist

• facilitator of liberation healing spaces

• healing and health justice advocate

• food and environmental justice activist

• anti-racist and anti-oppression organizer

• wisdom keeper and knowledge sharer

• BIPOC ancestral curriculum and program developer 

 

Luz is also a community builder and organizer with QTIPOC/BIPOC communities  (queer/trans and intersex people of color/ black indigenous people of color) and co-creator of the School of Liberation Healing and Medicine, which houses the Herbal Freedom School, BIPOC Communiversity and QTPOC Healing Histories and Queering Herbalism programs which focus on liberatory medicine and decolonial health and healing, acknowledging indigenous black and brown healing histories.

 

 

They have previously published writings on race, gender, healing and illness and have been published in:

 

• People of Color Organize!,

• Racialicious,

• Black Girl Dangerous,

• WildGender.com,

• Decolonizing Yoga

• Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

• the Scavenger 

• Examiner.com,

• the Dallas Voice,

• BlaqOut Dallas,  and various other media outlets and online publications.





Toi's current writings, compilations and projects include Queering  Herbalism and the Herbal Freedom School sessions, the Philosophactivism and Liberatory Medicine Making zines and their previous writings include  Notes from an Afro-Genderqueer 1 and 2 and  two black and brown, radical, genderqueer plays and novels called The Genderqueer Files: La Qolectiv@ and Resistencia: Sangre.



Luz's writings are a discourse on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and organizing for economic, food, health and gender justice as a gender non-conforming, queer person of color at the intersection of marginalized identities.



For over a decade, Luz has been an afroluminary ignoring society's norms, crushing boxes, ripping off labels, and just BE-ing and invites you to join them on their journey for healing, TRUTH, and transformation.

 



"I write not for entertainment's sake, but to help those who have been oppressed and who have felt invalidated, misunderstood, silenced and voiceless to know and be in their power. I hope that through some of my musings, mis/adventures, experiences and life journey that you will be able to see a little of your story in mine, that my words will resonate and that you'll be able to speak your own Truth, be in your Power and continue to help others rediscover their power as well."

 

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