Naomi Ortiz is the author of Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice and lives in Tucson, Arizona. In this piece, Naomi explores the role of ancestral work – as mending work, witnessing work, and grief work. 

Geez 60: Signs of Dawn invites us to enter the cave, the compost bin, the sidewalk crack. It dares us to believe in new life and the power of green, growing hope to bring even the mightiest walls crumbling down.

The Women Who Remember by Kelley Nikondeha, Geez 60: Signs of Dawn

Geez Out Loud is a production of Geez Press. In this fringe-Christian, Lefty podcast, select stories featured in the quarterly, print magazine are read to you by the author.

ABOUT GEEZ:
Geez magazine is a quarterly, non-proﬁt, ad-free, print magazine about social justice, art, and activism for people at the fringes of faith in both Canada and the US.

Our aim is to nurture a community of faith-oriented folks that are concerned about the environment, peace, racial and gender justice, decolonization, and other social concerns. At best, we offer a prophetic and provocative voice to the institutional church and a pastoral presence to those laboring at the front lines of social change.