Avril Heals is a healing justice org that cultivates community arts spaces centering queer BIPOC women and gender expansive folks.
Radical Reimagining of Community
Avril Heals envisions accessible spaces where queer Black, Indigenous women and gender expansive folks of color have access to creative community healing.
As queer women of color ourselves, we seek to empower our community by creating spaces for folks to skill share in various expressive arts modalities.
Through removing financial barriers and centering folks with lived experienced, we aim to foster collective healing.
Our spaces are intentionally created to center the following communities:
BIPOC
LGBTQAI2S+
Folks who’ve experienced gender based harm
Former and active sex workers
First generation Americans and immigrants
Who We Center
Our Approach
Sometimes, the words to explain how we feel do not exist. So, at Avril Heals, we intentionally take a creative and decolonial approach to healing that often deviates from Western tradition.
Transcending language and words, creative processes can serve as a more fluid form of expression. We use the expressive arts because the process of art making allows us to tap into undefined emotions and experiences we don’t always have the words for. Through being in community and using the arts, we encourage folks to rewrite their stories they way they want them to be told.
