Release your butt™ first occurred to me in 2021 while I was collaborating on a project focused on undoing white supremacy in the Alexander Technique. I realized there is a link for me between my whiteness and my patterns of tension. Born from my irreverently reverent nature, this phrase helped shift something in my soma along with putting a big old grin on my face.
Today I’m delighted to announce the Release your butt™ line of hats, mugs, and totes.
Hope is a prized value woven prominently into the fabric of America. Our culture urges us not to sit in the discomfort of despair. We insist on striving for a hopeful outlook no matter how bleak the circumstances. However, I write this in defense of despair. Allowing ourselves to be with this discomfort can act as a catalyst for change. Rather than thinking in mutually exclusive terms: hope or despair, I’d like to propose a spectrum containing both.
