Writing and art-making about connection and creativity as our pathways to liberation

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Nice things people say

“Your words, when I make time to read them, often strike resonant with me. Your dot-connecting, wild wondering, forever questioning posture. ”
— Edward, Breadmaker, parent, community organizer
“Sara is a natural, heart focused, intuitive leader and the one to beautifully teach us how being in community is done.
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— Jen Madanat, Midwife
“I can’t say enough good things about Sara - she is a revolutionary, magical person who brings so much of deep, transcendent value to the world, from playgroups, to activism, to her incredible writings. Sara is an activist in the truest sense of the word, helping everyone dream into what’s possible when we live with depth, creativity and accountability. Anything she does is worth your utmost attention”
— Noe Venable, Community Songleader
“Sara’s ability to weave her skills of deeply thoughtful community building and holding space for parents to show up in true vulnerability has transformed my life. ”
— Sara Van Acker, Midwife and Co-Founder of the San Francisco Birth Center
 

Bio

Sara Sadek, Founder of Folkweaver, is a mother and writer, partner and friend, facilitator and community builder here to co-create a world that radically reimagines the way we are to be in relationship together.

Storytelling, coaching, circle holding and art-making are her vehicles to radically re-imagine our relationship with ourselves, each other, and our planet.

She writes weekly essays, which you can subscribe to at folkweaver.substack.com and is published at Motherly Magazine and Mutha Magazine. She primarily writes narrative non-fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction. You can learn more about Sara here.

Folkweaver unapologetically and unequivocally stands up for and speaks out in solidarity with Black liberation, LGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice rights, indigenous justice, Palestinian justice, sovereignty & freedom, immigrant rights, disability justice, and more broadly, with every historically oppressed people in our collective quest for co-liberation.