Reclaiming BIRCH 2019 Summary
BIRCH is the Broad Intra-Reclaiming Council of Hubs. To read more about it, check out the history at this link.
Summary of Consensus Items from the BIRCH Meeting
FINAL CONSENSUS #1: We as BIRCH are consensing that we are asking our home communities across the world to have a process of accountability against transphobia.
FINAL CONSENSUS #2: To create structures in our local communities to bring marginalized people into leadership roles and to support them while they are there.
FINAL CONSENSUS #3: Create structures within local communities to financially and magically support marginalized people to do the work in communities that call for it.
FINAL CONSENSUS #4: BIRCH to make a public statement of support for the DARC statement, call for Reclaiming communities to work with it as it evolves. Take back to cells, ritual planning, teaching cells, communities, at minimum reading it, talking about it and doing work around it.
FINAL CONSENSUS #5 Replace Broader Intra-Reclaiming Council of Hubs (BADHUB) with BIRCH council
Purpose: to convene the next BIRCH meeting including convene virtual gatherings 2 to 3 times a year or as see fit to track tradition-wide emerging needs and to share info, to facilitate and share agenda items for the next BIRCH meeting based on above / facilitate gatherings and sharing of resources to meet the needs of marginalized people to be able to attend, be part of and lead the next BIRCH meeting, BIRCH meetings occur annually alternating between virtual and in-person meetings
A subgroup was formed to move ahead with this proposal and go convene the next BIRCH meeting online in one year.
Subgroup to move ahead with proposal: Raven E, Luiz, Harper, Lore, Morgana, Ravenna
Link to audio recordings of meeting
Link to BIRCH meeting notes
Decolonizing Actions in Reclaiming (DARC) Statement
Eldership in Reclaiming discussion meeting notes
You can view the financial summary of the 2019 Dandelion Gathering by the Weavers (Fio, Heidi, Jes, Lore, Phoenix and Rebecca ) at this link.
If you see anything missing on this page from the 2019 Dandelion Gathering and BIRCH meeting, please email us and we will add it.
Notes from Previous BIRCH Meetings
Follow this link to access notes from all previous BIRCH and Dandelion meetings.