Zainab Amadahy is an author of screenplays, nonfiction, and futurist fiction, the most notable being the adequately written yet somehow futurist cult classic “Moons of Palmares”. She also co-authored the groundbreaking academic essay Indigenous and Black Peoples in Canada: Settlers or Allies with Dr. Bonita Lawrence. Zainab is of mixed-race background that includes African American, Cherokee, Seminole, Portuguese, Amish, and other trace elements (if DNA testing is accurate). Based in peri-apocalyptic Nogojiwanong (Peterborough, Ontario), Zainab is the mother of 2 grown sons and a cat who allows her to sit on one section of the couch.
Zainab is available for workshop facilitation, talks and oracle card readings.
Zainab’s background involves activism, mentoring, and community work. Her community experience is in the areas of Indigenous knowledge reclamation, curanderismo, non-profit housing, women’s services, migrant settlement, and community arts. She has also worked in medical and photovoltaic technologies.
Zainab’s writings are about healing, decolonization, self-empowerment and social justice.
“Through my work, I strive to envision a world that values and nurtures our connectivity on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. ”
“My vision is one of healthy, sustainable communities that recognizes the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life, where individual wellbeing is understood to be crucial to that of the community, and community wellbeing is crucial to that of the individual, where relationships among communities contribute to globalized wellbeing.”
“Holistic healing has been of interest to me my entire life. I’ve endeavored to learn from various healers, medicine people, curandera/os, cultural knowledge keepers, and wisdom traditions. At this point, it’s hardly a revelation to note that unhealed trauma not only generates illness, it also fuels interpersonal, collective, and global conflict. The good news is that because humanity (and all of life, really) is measurably prosocial and interdependent, the more any one of us heals and supports the healing of others, the more emotionally stable and mature our species becomes.”
“For too long we have normalized violence and war, believing they are inherent to being human. As long as we believe this, we won’t look at how trauma and conflict create each other — generation after generation after generation.”
“At this point in my life, I am not capable of loving the haters, killers, and liars. But I do have the capacity to transmute their hate, anger, and disrespect.
“We now know that whatever we feel, whether it’s fear or love, contempt or delight, anger or calm, it is radiated into the world where it intersects with and impacts other beings.
“When waves of these varied emotions and ideas meet, they can strengthen, weaken, or cancel each other out. I choose to cancel the waves of hate, fear, and anger with compassion, joy, and love. The Universe doesn’t care who we hate, it only reads the hate. It doesn’t care who we love, it only reads love. The more we enjoy, delight, and love each other the more we diminish and cancel the opposing frequencies. Axé.”
“I never intend to suppress any emotion that arises because they are all part of my human experience. But when grief, sadness, or an anti-social emotion have cleared, I focus on a pro-social feeling, thought, or action so that I cancel the low frequencies I have radiated into our world and replace them with higher ones. I cannot change anyone but I can transmute their energy. Axé.“
