Somebody’s Baby
A yearlong membership with cohort residencies, visual stories, live workshops, writing, notes, and collaborative projects.
For people who give a damn, and people who want to.
What’s inside?
CHOIR PRACTICE
Four participatory, four-week cohort residencies throughout the year.
We meet once a week around one shared subject. I open each residency with something to get us started, then bring questions, observations, and a few pieces along the way to stir curiosity, conversation, reflection, and making.
We’re all in the residency together. What comes out of it will be different for each of us.
Year One residencies:
Community
Noticing
Sunday Dinner
Wading
BORROWED EYES
Four visual stories that let you spend a little time inside somebody else’s attention.
Each edition follows one person through the ordinary things they notice.
WORKSHOPS
Three live workshops, led by people with something useful, unusual, or genuinely interesting to share.
THE NOTES PROJECT
A growing collection of written, audio, and printable notes for moments when somebody could use a few human words.
TOOLS
Simple, reusable tools that help us notice the knowledge, experience, skills, care, and connections already present in our lives, and make it easier to reach for one another.
MUSEUM OF RIGHT NOW
Once a year, we make a collective digital snapshot of all of us as we are right then.
Members can contribute a quote, screenshot, link, short piece of writing, observation, video, image, song, or whatever else captures something about their right now.
WRITING LIBRARY
A collection of writing that grows out of Somebody’s Baby itself, the projects we’re doing, the people I’m talking to, the things I’m noticing, the questions that come up, and the ideas I want to sit with longer.
What participation looks like
Some parts of Somebody’s Baby are there whenever you want them. You can read, listen, explore, use a tool, or spend time with a project on your own. Other parts happen together.
Choir Practice is participatory. If you join a residency cohort, we meet once a week for four weeks. We talk, question, reflect, share, and see what the theme turns into for each of us.
Workshops are live. Come when the subject or person interests you.
Museum of Right Now is something we make together. Contributing is optional, but the museum exists because members add pieces of their own lives to it.
You do not have to show up for everything to belong here.
This is a membership you can actually live alongside your life.
Who this is for
Somebody’s Baby is for people who are interested in other people.
People who notice things.
People who are curious about friendship, community, care, creativity, and the way we move through the world with one another.
People who want more chances to think deeply, make things, talk honestly, gather, question, and participate in something with other human beings.
People who already give a damn.
And people who want to.
About Somebody’s Baby
This is a philosophy, a way of moving through the world. I’ve always looked at the world this way. Since I was a little girl, everyone has always been someone I know. The man pushing all of his belongings in a shopping cart is my uncle who stayed warm on public buses at night. The older woman slowing down traffic is my grandma who hasn’t driven in 17 years. The woman holding her newborn baby and crying is my mother trying to hold herself and a helpless child. What do I hope for anyone who crosses their path today? How do I hope they’re treated, thought of, or looked at?
Somebody’s Baby is what happened when I stopped keeping these questions to myself. Who are the people around us? Who might they belong to? What might remembering that change about the way we move through the world with one another?