Medicine Bowl's mission is to heal our relationship with the planet, the land, and one another.
Kifu Kamau Faruq
1973-2024
It is with incredibly heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of our beloved Founder, Co-Director, and Friend, Kifu Kamau Faruq.
Surrounded by loved ones, Kifu transitioned in the early hours of May 10th, 2024, after a journey with “Crystal” her euphemism for cancer.
The loss of her physical presence is deeply felt by all at Medicine Bowl and beyond. Kifu is a vibrant soul, full of life, knowledge, wisdom, warmth, and love. Her determination to strengthen and serve the Medicine Bowl community will continue to leave an indelible mark on us all.
Though we grieve her transition from this plane and dimension, we also celebrate her remarkable life and the badass ancestor she is now, poised to be bigger and bolder than any of us could even fathom, before she reminded us how.
Kifu’s contributions to Medicine Bowl and her legacy of healing, movement building, and community empowerment will continue to inspire us towards ease and grace.
May her memory be a gift.
Asé.
Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Family
Our Mission
Medicine Bowl is a relationship fueled queer and trans, Black and Indigenous led land-based strategy for liberation. We are a constellation of organizers, farmers, medicine people, and land stewards who believe we can nourish, feed, house & build alternative infrastructures for our communities and ourselves. Nestled in the Green Mountains of Western North Carolina, Medicine Bowl is a home and a hub for healing and movement building in the Global South.
Our Vision
Medicine Bowl envisions a Global South with sustainable institutions which recognize the connections we have to one another, the planet, and to spirit. This is liberation.
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Theory of Change
We are Black, Indigenous, Brown, Queer, & Trans Visionaries who understand the relationship between land and power. Medicine Bowl envisions a 2, 20, and 200 year strategy for liberation for the Global South. A key focus of that being building power, resilience, and healing with communities of color -- particularly Black and Indigenous peoples of this land: the Lumbee, and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee. In addition, we are a resource for rural white poor Southerners, who seek to be in right relationship with BIPOC communities and land.