The etc collective

Briana Strickland (any pronouns)

Briana is a passionate, queer creative and care-worker that is drawn to understanding and working with the human condition, artistic expression and healing our connection to ourselves and the planet as a whole. As someone who’s lived in various places and struggled to reclaim the meaning of home, she’s proud to call Greensboro home and has resided here since 2015. They have worked as a peer supporter since 2020, where they have supported initiatives such as growing the NC warmline—an anti-carceral peer alternative to hotlines and peer respites, which serve as a voluntary community alternative to hospitalization and involuntary commitment. They also work in harm reduction outreach, disability justice and mad pride advocacy, uplifting the needs and voices of our unhoused neighbors, lgbtqia+ advocacy and much more. As a survivor of many violent traumas, systemic violence, and police brutality, they have used their lived experience to connect and support others as a fierce advocate and accomplice, uplifting the dignity and voices of the most marginalized in our society. Briana is also a grief tender and death doula, facilitator, organizer, and life long learner. She loves exploring the liminal and esoteric, and is creatively inspired by various works and mediums. They are guided and grounded in animist, anarchist, abolitionist knowledge and works to co-create a space that represents diversity, pleasure, belonging and deconstructing so called societal norms.