Developed in 2020, Lettering is a social somatic movement practice, that connects memory, embodiment, and storytelling.

In the practice participants are asked to physically write ‘letters’ with their body and transcribe them from memory. The corporeally written letter invites the body to speak first, while the transcription illuminates what is unable to be captured in text.Through investigating where in our body memories live, and engaging in dialogue through writing with the body, Lettering seeks to involve the body in remembering, retelling, and inscribing.

When done intentionally in site specific locations Lettering becomes a form of land acknowledgement. Through our inscriptions, we communicate with the history that is still living within and shaping our present while acknowledging the relationship between ourselves and the places and spaces we inhabit.

This practice understands embodiment as an erotic practice while investigating and honoring the body as a historical archive that holds more than just trauma. Through embodied storytelling and valuing first person story/history-telling Lettering counters the violences of disembodiment, manipulation of narrative, and erasure.

“What does it mean to be inscribing yourself into this landscape?”

“for me it’s making that connection and establishing some kind of bond whatever that is between whatever is making up me in this moment and whatever is making up this…it feels like you’re rooting yourself, and I think as a Black youngish in this time Queer thing that I crave being rooted” - Anonymous Participant