photo by Alexis Brown.
I’m Na.
I create.
I dream up worlds in my body and offer them in ritual.
I am powered by a practice of pouring love into myself.
I shape a full body yes.
I wallow in the wild and dance with desire.
I am a performance ritualist, erotic educator, and loquacious lover. I am an herbalist, cacao lover, dancer, singer, yogi, conjurer, gleaming glitterbeam, all that. Blackity Black. Queer, twentyfine, baldie, mama, and forever a student of Audre Lorde. My artistry is the well through which I conjure my power. I plant futures in my palms in service of people who craft an abundantly free world. I no longer fear my deepest cravings. I am sweetening, softening, slowing, and surrendering. One question I keep returning to is, “is this a full body YES?” I am in my “embracing the erotic” era.
the erotic root is my ritual medicine practice.
The Erotic Root was born in the space between rupture and rebirth.
It is a living altar. A sanctuary. A spell.
A Black Queer Feminist love letter to the body as sacred, the erotic as power, and healing as a birthright.
Created by performance ritualist and erotic educator Nana Chinara, the erotic root emerged from years of survival, softness, and sensual reclamation. As a survivor of intimate partner violence, I’ve turned to movement, ritual, plant medicine, and performance—not as performance for others, but as devotion to myself.
This is a space where survivors, seekers, sensualists, and sacred disruptors come to unlearn shame, remember pleasure, and root into their erotic power.
welcome to my portal.