Selling the Circle
Darshan Elena Campos, PhD (they/elle)
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Darshan Elena Campos, PhD (they/elle)
I help divas, homies, jíbaras, and refugees decolonize and pursue financial reparations.
Selling the Circle: Sales, Marketing, and Taxes for People Whose Lands and Ancestors Were Stolen and Sold
Please join the Native Women's Care Circle and members of our beloved community of healers and artisans for "Selling the Circle: Sales, Marketing, and Taxes for People Whose Lands and Ancestors Were Stolen and Sold."
Monday, 7 December 2020 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CMT | tinyurl/sellingthecircle
This event features Shelagh Brown of @herbanhealing, Kassie Kussman of @meanrighthookdesigns and Kwincey Logan of @ganahgotayao as well as Sherry Taluc, Saundi Kloeckener, and Darshan Elena Campos, PhD of Native Women's Care Circle.
A lot of us make our living outside of stores and offices. We make herbal medicine such as tinctures and sell them at farmers’ markets, or we bead at home and travel seasonally on the pow wow circuit. Sometimes this is because tradition calls us to love the land and touch the earth. Other times we are limited in our options due to our status as immigrants and former prisoners or because we live with chronic medical conditions or are actively protecting our ancestral homeland as is happening at #1492LandBackLane.
Given our lives, how do we negotiate “selling” traditional medicines and crafts to people outside the circle we tend to keep?
Do we ever adjust our prices or sales practices, and how do we make those decisions?
How do we “market” ourselves, not just our goods, in ways that honor traditions of gifting and spiritual exchange?
And what about those of us who sell at fairs and flea markets for our primary source of income versus those of us who seek to enhance other earnings?
Please join us.
The Native Women's Care Circle is a diverse community centered in prayer and service. We pride ourselves in being multigenerational and are queer, twospirit, and trans inclusive . Our home base is Cahokia, which colonizers recently renamed St. Louis, Missouri.
