Hi! I’m Sarj, a Berlin-based facilitator, learning designer and community care organizer with a lot of curiosity. I’m interested in dreaming new realities and practicing utopias with people who give a sh*t. Another world is possible! 

My life story is, like everyone, shaped in many ways by my identities — white, trans/genderqueer, pansexual, so-called neurodivergent, currently able-bodied and healthy, and benefiting from a U.S. passport and German residence permit. I grew up mostly in the unceded lands of the Wichita people — lands pillaged, settled and occupied by colonies known as Texas and the United States. Growing up as the oldest of five kids raised mainly by our single mom — a brilliant and generous public school librarian who was always supporting other moms with childcare at our home — meant that my role as a teacher started from around age 3, and my work in community organizing started around age 8. I have a cat named Penny and a penchant for making bad puns.

Growing more capable and more alive in community is my passion. I love bringing people together to connect, exchange, and grow our collective power — especially when music, food and nerdy conversations are involved.

I co-founded aequa in 2018. The lockdown years brought a lot of births into my life: I opened the aequa Community Centre (2020-2023), co-founded the aequa Workshops Collective (2020-present), and was a founding member of Berlin Collective Action e.V. (2020-2024).

These days, my weeks are a mix of workshop programme design and facilitation as part of aequa Workshops Collective, stewardship of aequa’s newish e13 community space in Berlin Wedding, hosting the monthly aequa Radio show on Refuge Worldwide, and working with comrades on initiatives focused mainly on community care, migrant rights and border abolition, and mutual aid.

My work is created with deepest gratitude to many elders, including but not limited to: Combahee River Collective, Kes Otter Lieffe, bell hooks, DJ Marcelle, Camille Sapara Barton, Staci Haines, adrienne maree brown, Mariame Kaba, Mia Mingus, Charlene Carruthers, Margaret Killjoy, carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, the members/friends/alumni of Women in Exile e.V., as well as everyone I’ve met through aequa and in the gorgeous messiness of communal organizing spaces.