genesis ripley,
Los Angeles, CA, USA

A ceremonial exploration of collapse as cultural transformation, this offering invites participants to reimagine consent as a living technology for navigating the death of empire and co-creating something sovereign, relational, and new. Rooted in poetic witnessing and communal inquiry, we gather not to survive—but to re-ember.

Session Description

As we watch, in real time, the madness and flailing of a crumbling empire—and the raging lostness of those who worship it—we witness and feel the slow disintegration of domination masquerading as truth, cloaked in the false-skins of a performed benevolence. We arrive into this unknown, together. In this offering, we’ll explore collapse as a turning: a ceremonial relinquishing of unsustainable myths. We will ask ourselves what becomes possible when we stop trying to repair what was never broken—what was never built with our wholeness held sacred. Consent, here, becomes more than personal boundary—it becomes a way of life. A cultural and spiritual technology for navigating the death of empire and the birth of something else. Something new. Something ours.

This is not about surviving the fall—it is about choosing how we live through it, with our sacred attention, with our humanity in full presence. We will explore how The Technologies of Consent invite us into practices of relational architecture, where sovereignty, presence, and interdependence are welcomed as new foundations. Together, we will name what is collapsing, and more importantly, what we are cultivating in its place—not through obtuse force, but through intentional, reverent, consensual design.

Those present will be invited into reflective practice, poetic witnessing, communal exploration and inquiry. This is a space for those hungry to root into cultural transformation not driven by fear or reform, but by remembrance—the re-embering of our inherent worth, our right relationship to Earth, to ourselves as part of the myriad of their flesh and waters, and to our ability to co-create beyond coercion, all-ways consensually. Collapse—not as end, but as portal into new possibility.

Presenter Bio

Genesis Ripley is a Black, queer, genderless poet, unschooling mother, and Black Futurist whose work lives at the intersection of reverence, relationality, and liberation. A word artist and inspirator of The Technologies of Consent, Genesis weaves poems, workshops, and embodied frameworks that invite deeper conversation across the landscapes of identity, emoceanal truth, and consensual culture. Their living praxis honors the sentience of all beings, ancestral presence, and the nonlinear unfolding of self. Through art as ceremony, Genesis reaches into the wilderness of becoming, cultivating spaces where sacred practice, accountability, and grace converge.

Their offerings—rooted in presence, prose, and poetic architecture—are tender disruptors and ceremonial thresholds, whispering from the edges of dominant culture and calling us toward more truthful living. The Technologies of Consent is not only a body of work but a lived ecology: a commitment to horizontal relating, cultural reimagining, and sovereign connection. Genesis’s art, truth, and living are not separate acts—but one continuous prayer echoing through the margins, the mythologies, and the futures we are daring to create.

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