About Bunny Morgan-Brown
Portrait by Jacquelyn Tierney | Brand Identity by Swail Studio
I’m Alexis (“Bunny”) Morgan-Brown, and I'm an Black, Indigenous & Jewish femme multimedia artist, writer, and muse with over 15+ years of expertise, specializing in advising and mentoring high-performance professionals, community leaders, and creatives who are pioneers and innovators in their field. For more information about working with me as an intuitive analyst, ancestral healer, or spiritual guide, [visit my website.]
This Substack is a digital scrapbook and journal of my life + adventures, as well as resources for clients and foes alike. I believe, especially in the age of AI where creatives work is being taken without consent or input, that those who value human inspiration and exploration should support that work materially, for its whole lifecycle including rest + play, and without the expectation of productivity, which is why I rarely paywall content (unless it’s a personal update I want to share with my supporters but don’t want the world’s peepers on easily.) If you dig my work and have the means, pay for it so I can pay my time + talents forward to the work of envisioning and bringing to fruit a better world for us all → Become A Paid Subscriber For $18/month.
In 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 also 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.
I live with my partner and our two cats - Pumpkin and Mushroom - in Philadelphia, PA, 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.
