Stardust Field Notes

Land-Based Popups for Queer & Trans Liberation

Stardust Field Notes is a new popup program series designed to reconnect queer and trans Black, Indigenous people of color (QTBIPOC) and their families with land, healing, and community. We create joyful, hands-on, earth-centered gatherings that spark imagination, build survival skills, and deepen relationships with one another and the ecosystems we depend on.

Our vision is simple: more QTPOC joy in the sun, more futures built together.

  • Think of Field Notes as a traveling workshop series—community-rooted, family-friendly, and always grounded in liberation. Each gathering is a chance to build something real: a rain catchment system, a bat house, a community garden box, a shared story, a vision for the future.

    Each event includes:

    • Free or low-cost participation

    • All tools and materials provided

    • Childcare, food, and accessibility supports

    • Local QTPOC educators, artists, and makers

  • Access to green space, sustainable skills, and rest is unequally distributed. Many QTPOC families face structural barriers to nature—ranging from cost and geography to racism and gendered harassment in public space.

    Stardust Field Notes closes that gap by meeting people where they are, centering joy and dignity, and planting seeds of collective resilience.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.Here’s what we’re planning for our pilot year:

    • Garden Box + Potluck Build
      Learn to build your own raised bed and leave with seedlings to plant.

    • DIY Rain Catchment Systems
      Practice water sovereignty with a hands-on cistern-building workshop.

    • Bat House Build (Youth + Families)
      Engage kids in ecological care while making space for nonhuman kin.

    • Book Circle: The Intersectional Environmentalist
      Gather for snacks and stories in collaboration with local bookstores.

    • Camp Stardust: A QTBIPOC Family Retreat
      A weekend of land connection, rest, and dreaming together under the stars.

    • Dreaming Stardust Futures
      An indoor winter gathering to imagine what comes next—together.

  • If you are interested in attending an event, all you need to do is show up! We’ll be happy to greet you and help you feel comfortable in our community space.

    If you’re interested in pitching or facilitating an event, please complete a community interest form.