Moving beyond dominant narratives and the traditional “violence against women” framework, the book is multi-gendered, multi-racial and multi-layered. This thirty-seven piece collection disrupts the mainstream conversations about sexual violence and connects them to disability justice, sex worker rights, healing justice, racial justice, gender self-determination, queer & trans liberation and prison industrial complex abolition through reflections, personal narrative, and strategies for resistance and healing. Where systems, institutions, families, communities and partners have failed them, this collection lifts them up, honors a multitude of lived experiences and shares the radical work that is being done outside mainstream anti-violence and the non-profit industrial complex.

Above photo with QSV contributor, filmmaker, meditation teacher, editor of the anthology Love WITH Accountability, and dear friend Aishah Shahidah Simmons.

A high dez devotional-poetic exploration of surviving + maybe sometimes thriving in these change times through relationships with plants, animals, land, through an evolving relationship to home, body(ies), the liminal state of queerness, and healing. Join as free subscriber or a paid subscriber to get 1-2 writings a month.

Drawing on a multitude of breathing practices from different healing and spiritual traditions, The Power of Breathwork includes 25 simple exercises that you can practice alone or with a partner.

Knowing how to breathe and how to use your breath purposefully has been proven to reduce negative mental and physical issues and actually heal the body and mind. A regular home breathwork practice is an affordable and easy way for you to engage in self-healing practices that can have a profound impact on your overall health. The Power of Breathwork provides you with simple and approachable ways to intentionally and effectively breathe to bring healing and joy.

Quoted in Chapter 2 of “Breathwork and Psychotherapy: Clinical Applications for Healing and Transformation” written by Jessica Dibb

Chapter from my in-process new book “Assaults + Rituals” in Art, Activism, and Sexual Violence, Edited by Sally L. Kitch and Dawn R. Gilpin, University of Washington Press

Chapter Interview, The Iboga Experience by Leo van Veenendaal

Quoted in “Complex Trauma Recovery and Herbalism”, Heidi Smith, MA, RH (AHG), Journal of the American Herbalists Guild

Poem, “We Were Not Alone: A Community Building Art Works Anthology”, Hari Alluri, Seema Reza, and Jewel

Interview, Rhythm + Devotion, Chanelle Bergeron

Contributor, “Breath Work Is a Powerful Self-Care Tool and Is More Accessible Than You Think”, The/Thirty

Featured, “Learn How Self Care Has Evolved Since 2020”, Kelsey Maloney

My anthology Queering Sexual Violence listed in “Books to support us in healing from sexual violence”, Alisa Zipursky

Featured, “9 Wellness Experts on Their Best Self-Care Tips for Feeling More in Control”, Elle Magazine

Interview, Poets & Writers

Chapter on shadow work and poison medicine, “The Bloom Book: A Flower Essence Guide to Cosmic Balance”, Heidi Smith

Interview, “Healing is Always Political”, Alchemist’s Kitchen

Creative Non-Fiction, “Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine”, VIDA

Feature, “Creating Safe Space for Queer Community”, Wellvyl

Interview, “Radical Responsibility: a Conversation between Lisa Factora-Borchers and Jennifer Patterson” , Issue 16, make/ shift Magazine

Creative Non-fiction, “Watchers At The Edge”, 580 Split

Interview, “Ask a Libra: Why Are You So Fair?”, Gala Mukomolova of Nylon Magazine

Chapter, “These Bones”, included in the anthology “The Survivors Project: Telling the Truth About Life After Sexual Abuse”, Nina Hoffmann

Contributor, “Wellness Without Community Care Won’t Make Us Truly Well” , Sara Weinreb for Well & Good

Mention, Domino Magazine

Mention, Vogue Magazine

Above image from Elle Magazine feature.

Breathwork to Relieve Stress & Anxiety with Jennifer Patterson, Sounds True’s YouTube

BreathWork: Grief as a Doorway with Jennifer Patterson, Sounds True’s YouTube

Panelist in “A World of Unity, Equity, Empowerment, and Love for ALL: Breathwork for the Ending of Othering”, The Shift Network’s 2022 Breathwork Summit

“What Lives Beyond Language”, with Seema Reza + Community Building Artworks

Episode 165: Surviving & Thriving With Plants, Breath, and Words With Jennifer Patterson, with Laura Chung

Above image is Jennifer with Tami Simon of Sounds True.

Interview, “Grief as a Portal” with Sebene Selassie and Kate Tyson, October 10th 2023

Interview, “Aliveness in Dying Times”, interview on Wayward Bodies, October 19th, 2022

Interview, Tamed Wild’s Magick & Alchemy, Kate Below + Kristin Lisenby, October 12th, 2022

Interview, “Surviving and Thriving with Plants, Breath, and Words”, Awaken and Align podcast with Laura Chung, April 6th, 2022

Interview, “What Lives Beyond Language”, Community Building Art Work’s Podcast with Seema Reza, February 11th, 2022

Interview, “If the Rupture is the Fabric” w/Jennifer Patterson, You’re Going to Die podcast, April 29th 2021

Interview, “Pricing On A Sliding Scale”, What Works with Tara McMullin, spring 2020

Interview, “Expanded States of Consciousness: In Conversation with Renee Sills”, Embodied Astrology, March 14th, 2020

Interview about healing trauma with psychedelics & entheogens, Inside Eyes with Laura Mae Northrup, September 2nd, 2019

Interview, “Reconnecting to Spirit After Trauma”, Unbroken Chain with Maura James, April 17th, 2019

Interview on poison medicine, trauma & working with grief, Dancing Wolves with Yarrow Magdalena, April 29th, 2018

Above image from You’re Going to Die podcast.