GOOD TROUBLE is C. Onyx Li and Liz Digitale Anderson.
We’re two mixed-race Asian queers who share a love of singing, community building, art as public engagement and culture shifting, grief tending, labyrinth walking, movement chaplaincy, and ritual creation to process and shift these times we are living in. (C. is one of the major reasons I’m a songleader at all; when we met they very generously invited me into their songleading practice to experiment together and the rest is history. C. Onyx Li leads Music That Makes Community; you can learn more about their artistic practice at Points of Light Music here.)
We’ve led community singing together at in many different ways and spaces:
- Open Streets Festivals
- Workshop at The FREC Conference for Overcoming Racism: Songs for Truth telling, New Narratives, and Cultural Composting
- Education for Liberation workshop including Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed
- The Good Friday Public Grief Ritual for Palestine on the steps of the State Capitol
- Full weekend retreats for activists to prevent burnout and offer healing space
- The Subzero Singalong during Art Shanties at Lake Harriet
- The OutFront Queer Youth Summit
- Offers and Needs Markets
- Full Voice Methodology Series of Workshops at Yess Yoga
- The Nexus ROOT Healing the Healers Gathering
- Praxis cohorts through Resmaa Menakem’s seminal book, My Grandmother’s Hands.
- Farmer’s Markets, birthday parties, potlucks, and more!
We’d love to collaborate on your project, process, or potential community building event. Get in touch with us and let’s brainstorm!
“I just wanted to reach out and thank you for the event held last Thursday evening at Stewart Park.
I feel like I have to walk around like a cauterized wound most days,
but the grieving you helped to facilitate made me feel human again.
I wish we could be open all of the time.
I am grateful to both you and C. for bringing people in the community together
and creating a space for this essential human expression….
I still talk about that night. It created a transformative shift in the way I view conflict.”
—Mary K, after NONE OF THIS SHOULD BE HAPPENING: A Grief Ritual for Palestine and Israel
Ongoing Projects:
Retrain Your Lizard Brain: Somatic Singing for Trauma and Resilience is a monthly space exploring how singing can support our healing journeys. If you want space to connect your body back to your mind, heart, and feelings, we’ll sing through our fears and broken hearts and practice finding compassion and growth together.
Songs for Tending Your Hearts is a bimonthly space to gently hold our griefs, large and small, personal and political, and give them space and tenderness.
The Singing for Liberation Songleader Incubator meets the last Monday of every month as an ongoing practice space for new songleaders to practice leading and get supportive feedback in community. You’re welcome to come and just sing, or try your hand at leading a song!
We’re gonna be experimenting with THE BIPOC GOOD CRY soon with our friend Alsa Bruno (#BlackPeopleWin), stay tuned 👀
Follow us on Instagram at @GoodTroubleSings, or check our linktree here for links and dates of upcoming events.
(and the best way to stay up to date is still to get on the email list here 🙂 )
