“Sex is natural and I truly believe that women, they're more sexual than men but we have to hide it because we're looked at as whores or you know - the stigmas that are out there. I hear comments sometimes when a woman is maybe a little seems “promiscuous” putting quotations when I say that online because she's showing her body and a lot of men would make comments saying like, ”oh, well, she looks easy no one will ever take her seriously.” And it's like, why is that? Why can't we take her seriously because she's expressing herself in a sensual way?”

-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Amanda Diaz, Sex Herbalist.

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“We think props are only used in certain positions or whatever and I'm like no, no. Props can be used for the whole practice and even moving away from the word “prop,” like calling it a support.

“COVID is opening up a big dialogue for things that were happening before that got swept under the rug but now we can't avoid it. We can't avoid being more accessible as teachers and as practitioners as well.”

-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Shanèl Dear, Movement and Meditation Teacher.

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“When I think that's why we have these facial features, it makes me proud because it's proof that your ancestors survived this long. In order for us to come into this world and continue our family legacy, continue our lineage, continue to like survive and thrive and I feel like that has a deeper purpose. So when I look at beauty, yeah it’s spirit, but also the stories of our ancestors that are written all over your face.”

-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Tamsin Lee, East Asian Medicine Doctor, Researcher, and Face Reader.

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“Even when you're womxn of color, you're not always going to be personally in alignment with each other. Even if your collective goal is the same, it doesn't necessarily mean that on a personal level y'all make great friends. We're so diverse, like womxn of color, you're talking about different cultural backgrounds, different upbringings, different values of just like the home, and how we look at friendships.”

- Excerpt from podcast episode conversation with Ellen Bowles and Imani Quinn, Co-Hosts of The Woke Mystix and Co-Authors of Astrology SOS.

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“When we call somebody else a colonizer, we’re denying our ability to see or limiting our ability to see how those things live within us. It’s adhering to these binaries. It is limiting our ability to see the flexibility of identity.”

-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Marika Clymer, Medicine Woman, Energetic Healer.

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"It made me realize how screwed up all of this is and that it's not just me. It's everybody. Everybody's been fed this lie that we can control our health. That it is completely within our control."

-Excerpt from Conversation with Aisha Nash, Body Image Educator.

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“As soon as we are looking at our survival, that’s when that primal ‘you vs me’ tribalism, ‘by all means necessary,’ ‘it’s not personal, it’s business,’ ‘it wasn’t that bad of a deal, you got what you needed’ - like, that needs to stop.

When we choose to do ancestral healing and personal development, when we choose to believe that our humanity can be different than the way that it has been, we will do business different.”

- Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Ash Johns, Psychospiritual Life Coach, Ancestral Healer, Conscious Business Strategist.

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“What our Indigenous technologies and teachings share with us is that we exist in present, in past, and in future all at the same time.

There is no more poignant way to experience that than by connecting with a plant. So many of us, people of color, womxn of color, we walk around the world being like, ‘I’m not whole. My story is not complete. My parents don’t want to talk about my ancestors. There’s colonial shame.'

- Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with xóchicoatl bello, Ancestor-in-training, Ceremonialist, Circlekeeper, Healing Practitioner.

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“Food is spiritual for me because it came from the land and the land is alive, it’s full of wisdom and spirits, and each aspect of nature is a Being. Humans are seen as the apex of some fictional hierarchy. If we were to really understand that the land is alive, then we would realize we’re actually not on this apex, if there is a hierarchy at all.”

-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Mimi Young, Shamanic Witch, 巫 (Wu) Occultist.

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“We all want to be well and spiritually well but how can we also be reciprocal to indigenous communities?"

-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Pınar Ateş Sinopoulos-Lloyd, Co-founder of Queer Nature & Indigequeers.

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