Conjuring Cultural Transformation

Mia Birdsong is a pathfinder and futurist who reconnects us with our forgotten wisdom and practices of
our collective liberation.

Mia Birdsong is rewriting what it means to get free. Blending scholarship, journalism, and cultural meaning-making, she does critical work to reconnect us with forgotten wisdom and train our attention on the ideas and practices we need to live in the world we know is possible. With her eyes on the future, Mia has spent decades interrogating false ideas and proposing new visions of who and how we can be with each other.

Mia’s Values

Current Projects

Past Projects

Frank Talk on
Freedom’s Revival

TED Talk Interview on
the Story of Poverty

TED Talk Interview with
BLM Founders

More Than Enough

Mia in the Media

Mia and her work have been featured in:

Mia’s Lineage

Mia’s thinking and doing is shaped by a long lineage of movements and leaders who have come before her. 

  • BLACK FEMINISM

  • ABOLITION

  • DISABILITY JUSTICE MOVEMENT

  • OCTAVIA BUTLER

  • NANNY OF THE MAROONS

Who Mia Learns From

Mia’s work is part of a much larger community of practices and practitioners who are living into the future we want now. Here is an incomplete and evolving list of people who grow Mia’s imagination.