Volunteer Organisers

SARAH

(they/she)

Sarah is a person of Irish Settler descent, practicing relationship on shared, ancestral, and occupied lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples.

They first came to the DTES through their BSc in Land and Food Systems at UBC, questioning food security. They learned the importance of accessibility and cultural relevance through the experience of working at a frontline resource centre, where they wove food through programming, and first connected to land on the 100 block of East Hastings, at the Healing Garden.

In their personal practice, Time & Times, Sarah creates poetry set to accordion drone, folk tunes often found in intertidal moments of transformation.

cait

(they/them)

Cait (they/them) is a queer care worker of maternal Doukhobor Russian descent based on the ancestral and occupied lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) first peoples. 

Graduating from Simon Fraser University with a BA Geography, they are curious about community encounters that transform us and the durational care technologies necessary to persist while considering the geographies of their utopian-commune settler ancestors through a queer and trauma-informed lens.

Composing small studies and time-based questions on the edges with Gentle Geographies, - an embodied, land-based research praxis grounded in a study of relationships and conditions, they primarily orbit through the Downtown Eastside and remote frontlines with their Mobile Research Unit learning about fire and fireweed - towards iterations of futures beyond settler colonialism.