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@jax_leigh_

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🌀 spiral sentient • artist • dreamer • wayfinder
🌀 practice @resonanceinstitute_
🎶 musician @echoonda
🗺️ OR • first wave DoKAD diaspora:::

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snippets from my second to last soft-sunsetting post for theory of resonance, my Substack publication since 2023.

to honor my deep love for this project as a grounding and guided force in my life, i thought i’d write up a very brief, high level synopsis of what i’ve come to learn about resonance, relational resonance, and relationships over these last seven years of praxis, life experience, and independent scholarship.

thank you for tuning in, everyone. your encouragement and support has been FELT::: when i hear that my jumbling together of letters and words to make sense of what’s ineffable and senseless moves you, i am moved. thank you.

SOON i’ll be announcing the writing project that is about to receive much more creative energy. it feels exciting and a little scary and alive, so i know i’m doing it right.

sending you all of your senses as a guiding and wayfinding force in the dark. when we sense together, we survive, we are protected, we are held. and maybe even enjoying life together a little at the same time.

big love.

🌀 by @jax_leigh_

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10 days ago

Last week we introduced you to the album ‚Lightkeeper’ by DoKAD Jax Leigh (Jacque Fitzgerald) @jax_leigh_ and Echo Onda @echoonda.
One year after the album debuted, the music video for ‘liminal’ was released ✨

Feel free to discover more of ‘lightkeeper’ by Echo Onda in our archive. Including lyrics and listening links to all streaming platforms 🎵

More by DoKADs | for DoKADs
on DoKAD.archive 💛

🔗 link in bio taken in Portland, Oregon by @jax_leigh_

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15 days ago

too many of us know the experience of sexual assault and the despicable aspects of rape culture that perpetuate the heinous behavior of men who never learned that the world is not theirs. who never learned that they are not entitled to take everything just because they want it.

we need to see the patterns earlier. we need to notice when a boy claims the playground as his. we need to notice when our teenagers don’t intervene on their friend’s bad behavior. we need to explicitly teach skills that preserve human dignity to all of our children. we need to remove leaders from positions who embody values that allow for these extreme acts to keep happening.

i tread carefully with the news these days. but last night’s dream reminds me that news we need to tune into can find us anyway, and of the power of our shared consciousness and shared solidarity as women, as people, who have been living through this bullshit their whole lives, carrying the memory of our mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers in their bodies and who are done.

oppressive patriarchy. we are done. excuses. we are done. silence. we are done. scapegoating. we are done. rape culture. we are done. elite institutions and their leniencies for the sake of money, power, and prestige. we are done.

to jane doe and all those who have by some miracle survived living through rape culture and all of its manifestations, we stand together.

boys and men, we need your active voices, aligned parenting, and advocacy.

may we all be living, breathing, and powerful counter force embodied. by @jax_leigh_

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16 days ago

First wave DoKAD, Jax Leigh (Jacque Fitzgerald) @echoonda released Echo Onda’s sophomore album ‘Lightkeeper’ in August 2025. Her songs tell the story of healing, belonging, liminal identity, and the complexity of navigating life as a descendant adoptee diaspora. Jacque Fitzgerald wrote, performed, and co-produced the album in collaboration with a community of musicians in Portland, Oregon.

Before connecting with our emerging DoKAD community, Jax used music to express a lived experience that can be difficult to put into words. ‘lightkeeper’ by Echo Onda @echoonda is in our archive, with lyrics and listening links on all streaming music platforms.

Track list: Between, Lotus, Liminal, Dream ensues, New kid, Belong, Phase, Locate paradise, Sleepwalker, Lighthouse

More by DoKADs | for DoKADs
on DoKAD.archive 💛

🔗 link in bio taken in Portland, Oregon by @jax_leigh_

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22 days ago

A tearful story transmission from this morning’s phone banking with the @environmentalvoter project.

Just wanted to share with you.

Today is really simple. I’m just letting folks in Virginia know that early voting has begun and asking how they plan to vote. That’s it!

There were 25 volunteer two Wednesdays ago. This week there are close to 50.

The Environmental Vote Project is a bipartisan non-profit with a single mission to bring environmentalists to the polls as a habit. 🌏🗳️ by @jax_leigh_

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23 days ago

look at the sweetness someone left in the zine library:::

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🌀 by @jax_leigh_

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25 days ago

Good experience this morning with the @environmentalvoter project! They’re a non-profit, non-partisan, strategic mobilizing effort to get environmentalists out to the polls as a habit.

Did you know 11.2 MILLION environmentalists did not vote in the 2024 election!?!

That’s a staggering number. Especially when we consider how close so many of these races are across the nation.

Politicians target the issues that voters say they care most about. Even though climate change often 4th or 5th issue for voters, the numbers of people who care about this issue are not as reflected in that data as they could be.

Yes, democracy is… in shambles… and the regime is doing everything they can to suppress voter power. But they’re doing that because our vote IS powerful.

We may not know what will happen if we act, but we do know what will happen if we don’t. I don’t want the worst outcome for us or our descendants or our one home, planet earth.

Anyway, here’s a cool spot to channel your energy if you feel called.

@environmentalvoter and @ayanaeliza are phone banking every Wednesday from now to mid-terms. I’ll be joining most if not all. Sure it’s a little clunky and awkward at first, but that’s a good civic engagement muscle to strengthen regardless of what comes our way. Because friends, there is A LOT coming our way.

If you want to come over for tea at my place and make calls to fellow environmentalists over the coming weeks, hit me up. 🍵📞✊🏽🌏✨ by @jax_leigh_

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a month ago

I would love to gather with you virtually this coming Sunday, September 6 for my monthly Resonance Circle from 10-11:15am PST.

It’s a really sweet emerging space for quieting and listening inside.

Our time looks like:
• Opening: brief intros, orient to agenda + the space (10 min)
• Journaling: free write or prompt, mapping your ecosystem (10 min)
• Gentle Movement: toes to head, somatic practice (15 min)
• Inner Listening: IFS-based sensing and opening towards a part yourself (20 min)
• Oracle Reading + Closing: card pulls for each of you and optional sharing (20 min)

Friends who wanna come say hi and practice with us, please do. New and current client and students welcome as well.

Space is limited to 6. 4 spots left. $22

>>> visit ‘Spaces’ link in bio => Monthly Resonance Circles

#embodiment #practice #resonance #somatics #internalfamilysystems by @jax_leigh_

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‘lightkeeper’ turns 1-year-old this weekend. still so damn proud of this project and what it helped to teach, open, and heal in me. still so grateful for who and what it’s connected me to.

celebrating a little light in the dark. doing my best to never forget to do that.

thanks for listening.

🧁🫰🏽

cover art : @celinafloresphoto
co-producer : @badger_magic_roboberdorfer

#portland #music #lightkeeper #liminal #echoonda by @jax_leigh_

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2 months ago

The very first academic study that examined the intergenerational impacts of adoption was published last week.

I sat down to read it today.

Terms like ‘liminal identity’, ‘intergenerational silence’, and ‘rootlessness’ really resonated.

I’m not sure I’d ever like to be referred to as a ‘by product,’ but I appreciate a body of research specifically naming the impact and shaping of adoption on children of adoptees.

I often find myself wondering why our experience as descendants of adoptees should matter as the severing of people from land and culture and their roots is so pervasive across centuries of struggle for indigenous peoples and diaspora across the world.

This doubt is the conditioning of comparative suffering. It is not a competition. And our interconnected wounds form webs of resilience and solidarity with one another and to all groups impacted by xenophobia, imperialism, and colonization that strengthen us as a global community of people and include all people across difference.

As a first wave DoKAD, I keep thinking about descendants of adoptees everywhere who continue to move untethered through the world without any support, without anyone to validate their struggle and confusion, without language for their experience, without witnessing.

We’re a heavily dispersed and individually siloed diaspora who are really only finding one another in recent years. It is a new kind of belonging, not because of our shared loss and trauma, but in spite of it.

Finding this community is healing. Liberatory. It feels like mending what has been lost one relationship and one story at a time.

Very grateful for this early scholarship. All the little ones in me are too.

#dokad #adoptees #diaspora #adoption #healing by @jax_leigh_

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2 months ago

Thank you to all of the adoptees, descendants, and adoptee constellation spaces that invite the sharing stories so openly and vulnerably. You are opening more and more in me.

It’s been 5 years since I was welcomed so warmly for the first time into an adoptee space with @adoptionmosaic.

It’s been 4 years since I was invited to gather and share my story with @bipocadoptees for the first time.

It’s been 10 months since I discovered @dokadstories and found an emerging community of people who became the first mirrors for my *whole* story to be truly seen.

Descendants of Korean Adoptees, global majority descendant diaspora, and all adult children of adoptees deserve to bring the half or more of themselves that has been hidden away by the erasure of the adoptee experience into the light.

It is time for us. It’s a little scary and I don’t know what I’m doing, but isn’t that just about perfect for the times?

Here for the many first times to come.

#adoption #dokad #adultchildofanadoptee #descendantdiaspora #stories by @jax_leigh_

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2 months ago

there’s a lot going wrong right now, but this went pretty alright.

grateful to the creativity that swept through this week and got me back on track. i think i slept an extra 12 hours. and i know spent close to two days on the floor. damn, i was wrecked from this leo szn. a pattern i hope to curb after this fire horse sprint.

really grateful for my people, seen and unseen right now. i needed those texts, those check in’s, those visits in my dreams. grateful for the ground under my feeling feet, and for the moments when i let myself get swept up by the current of imaginative inspiration that’s also kicking through the ether amidst so much awfulness and horror.

fear is real. anger is sacred. grief is flowing. protectors are in overdrive. and… to soften. to be — that is where the life is.

if you’d like some zine-spiration, swing by mine! and maybe send me submissions and collab ideas if you want to play in this sandbox. pretty psyched about this little project. (and yes we’re pissed about the graffiti)

the new zine ‘have i told you lately’ should be up next week or i’ll just be 💤.

xo j

p.s. i want to be away from instagram… they literally steal and sell our creativity. anyone else? but also… where else?

#zines #portland #resonance #makeart by @jax_leigh_

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