Black Girl In Om is an organization dedicated to creating spaces for Black women to breathe easy. The Annual Wellness Day touts itself as a “space for self-identified black women and women of color in the Bay Area to move our bodies, take good care of ourselves and hold the space for important conversations around freedom and wellbeing.”

The word “community” comes from the Latin “communis” which means “to share in common.” Community is of the common people, not kings or aristocrats or clergy. Community isn’t hierarchical. Neither is art. We’re all holy commoners as artists, we’re all in the glorious mess of life. Art is how we make sense of the world and my time here. Seeing a piece of work that touches our own aliveness fills me with gratitude. An artist needs to expose their ideas to the community. It is there, not in splendid isolation, that art does what it needs to do — grow and connect and redeem.

~ Greta Gerwig