About Bunny Morgan-Brown
I’m Alexis (“Bunny”) Morgan-Brown, and I'm an Black, Indigenous & Jewish femme, working as a multimedia artist, writer, and muse. I formerly served on the advisory board of [We Make The Path Community Cooperative], a community interest company dedicated to supporting chronically ill, neurodivergent + disabled people in achieving their professional goals through sustainable work practices and entrepreneurship.
Since 2016, my creative activism and work as a spiritual guide + facilitator have generated several million in wealth rematriation & redistribution to leftist grassroots organizing, into the hands of individual organizers, mutual aid funds, and direct-to-individuals-in-need giving around the world. In 2019, my Ancestors began sharing with me the fundamental healing and ceremonial practices of a body of practices I now call Mzizi Udongo (lit, ‘root soil) alongside deepening my Jewish practice and education, and in 2022, after 20 years of study, apprenticeship, and experience amongst my communities, I was initiated by my spirits and the Grandmothers (the collective ancestral memory of Earth and all incarnated beings who have lived on her), as a kasima (ancestral healer) & udagan (approx. orgoito/xesete böö), leaving public service to get married and to go on healing sabbatical until the spring of 2025, although I didn’t get the memo on that until about 3/4 of the way through.
My spiritual vocation was not at all my aspiration nor my desire, and I very much wanted to be normal — I wanted to become a human rights attorney working for UNESCO as a teenager. Unfortunately for me, since the day I was born, normal never cast its wretched shadow on my doorstep so I didn’t have a fighting chance. Like most people who experience ancestral spiritual callings, I was dragged, and it wasn’t until I went through my initiation and healing sabbatical that I was able to release my self-consciousness and shame around having a social role that neither fits the traditional conventions from which it is rooted, nor aligns with the cultural zeitgeist of my politics or the society in which I live. This Substack and its various publications herein are dedicated towards sharing what I know, documenting my spiritual journey, and serving my communities as we strive to reimagine the possibilities for a world free of hierarchy, violence, and exploitation.
My deliciously cultivated & frequent downtime is spend working as an artist and designer through various mediums, particularly writing, fashion, interiors, collage, textiles, mixed media, and sacred + ritual toolmaking. When not enjoying the fruits of peace and relaxation, I am an active fundraiser for the [The Accomplis Collective], a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to gathering + redistributing resources and support to grassroots Black and Indigenous community organizing & artistic projects throughout the United States. I live with my partner & chief-of-staff, RB Brown, and our two cats - Pumpkin and Mushroom, while being the proud aunt of several incredible nieflings. I continue to aspire to inherit the title of “the most exciting [femme] in the world” from Eartha Kitt, by way of a vivid + kindly phantasm of the late Orson Welles.
Who Are My Ancestors?
Ethnically speaking, I was raised as a biracial, Black-Indigenous (Tsalagi/Cherokee) AFAB person, in a culturally Jewish home with queerplatonic guardians.
In regards to my Indigenous identity, I am not presently an enrolled member of any Cherokee nation at this time. This is not by choice, my adoption records are permanently sealed, and genealogical kinship ties are harder to document as a consequence, and I am working on establishing the relational connections required to re-enter community responsibly without them. However, I know enough about my familial connections through a pretty in-depth survey of my extended cousins through my maternal lineage, to feel comfortable with accepting that my biological mother was likely being truthful about her (and subsequently my) identity. However, as a reconnecting/reclaiming, mixed Indigenous person, I try my best to stay in my lane and engage appropriately as to avoid contributing to even inadvertent harm.
My Black ancestors by descent were formerly enslaved persons along the Eastern seaboard coastline (including Gullah-Geechee people), some of whom migrated West and North. My direct ancestors primarily settled into the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains (where I was born), and up into the Midwest, specifically Chicago; and my Black ancestors by adoption hail from Louisiana as part of the Lee family, migrating through Texas due to racist violence and an attempted lynching of our family’s patriarch, and out to Portland, Oregon, where most of them live today.
