Hush Harbor Fellow Fund

 “Listening to my grandmother talk of prayer is pointing me toward my peace and back to the hush harbor. The harbor, like prayer, was a place of practicing the invisible, allowing the imagination all its theology, orthodoxy, and profligacy—to wander, wonder, and be. For the enslaved, prayer became a preparation, a tilling of the ground for the future in the present, an articulation of the sequestered or unsaid, what had to be hushed or hummed. Prayer, like a spell, reifies a potential through the apparatus of the voice, through sound gathered and bent toward presencing what is absent. What does not exist in form, something like freedom, can exist in practice, in the trying out of one’s voice, in throwing one’s voice toward what one desires. It’s bringing about freedom, peace, a sense of wholeness, before one can achieve it in the physical realm. The hush harbor offered a place, a physical location, to speak of the invisible and imagine a bondage-free future.” - Roger Reeves

The Hush Harbor Fellow Fund provides resources to medicine women and gender expansive medicine people which support rest, practice, and further development of spiritual and healing tools. Zavobe Oyen’ike Mama Neith Sankofa is our inaugural Hush Harbor Fellow Fund recipient.