imagine you have been invited to be present on land where time moves differently, where the past is not behind you and the future is not somewhere far away.

you arrive. first, you feel it in your body. something is different.

your shoulders drop.

your breath deepens.

the ground receives you.

the word “home” arrives like a love letter to your soul.

this is the start of your Homeplace retreat with SUSU. here, the land holds something different for you - it holds you.

slow down, it says, and listen. remember.

you listen and move and share stories and learn. you find out that you are walking paths shaped by a lineage of Black women who understood that survival required everyday care and sacred practice as forms of resistance.

you learn about Black womanist thinkers and traditions including June Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, Octavia Butler, and bell hooks, and by the historical role of Homeplace as a site Black women cultivated for safety, dreaming, restoration, and resistance.

you are nourished by this knowledge and by being on this part of the wabanaki homelands.

you are prepared to enter relationship with soil, ancestors, the people beside you,

… and with the parts of yourself that have been waiting for space to return.

you felt before you arrived, and now you are experiencing SUSU alongside community as a living classroom. a ceremonial container. a place where political and ecological practice are ordinary parts of life.

prepare for your experience and find more information below.