We’ve welcomed the newlyweds to the farm! (Besides being newly married ourselves!)

Meet Poundcake the boer nubian doeling (formerly known as Rosa Lee) and Vesey in honor of the rebellion leader. Our new buckling is from Denmark, Maine and has granted me the great opportunity to infuse Black history knowledge alongside holding the trauma of our people having been treated as livestock. I grappled with the name. But it came naturally and made me even more excited to be getting a buck. I’m treating these creatures with respect and love as they become integral to the herd and growth of Black and Trans independence and sustainability in a rural hunting fishing and farming community.

I will continue to grapple with what it means to raise animals on a farm, given the history of Black people, my people, in this country. I will continue to hone my understanding of the system as its been created and the inclination of human beings infected with yt supremacy culture to do wrong by other living creatures. I am not separate from these goats. So I must treat them, as I would want to be treated, with my needs, health, safety, and happiness at the forefront of my actions. I’m sure that I’ll fall short as I learn skills stripped from my ancestral memory and yet, engrained in my dna.

Open to conversation and growth, always. So may we all be,

Khonsu X