wayward is an undisciplined home for radical plotting.

wayward is a messy little art space: multidisciplinary, intergenerational, casual, unpredictable.

wayward does political education at the cinema, in the garden, on the dance floor, at the game table.

wayward doesn’t fuck with cops, bosses, or binaries.

wayward publishes things sometimes and shares things always.

wayward prioritizes all forms of accessibility and femme care. 

wayward is an unsafe space for anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity. 

wayward centers wayward paths, visions and movements that emerge from the people.

wayward is funded through relational economics, barter systems and dirty money.

wayward is pay what you can. 

wayward is material; wayward is virtual. 

wayward refuses to use size and scale as measures of success.

wayward is an imperfect and impermanent experiment.

wayward sits on the unceded and stolen Indigenous lands belonging to Eno, Catawba, Saponi, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Shakori and other nations of the Yesah Confederacy.
 

As a collective founded on decolonial values, our primary long-term goal is to rematriate the 2.5 acres of land  the house is on to  indigenous land stewards of the Yesáh Confederacy.

wayward is our temporary home.

wayward was developed and organized by two life-long educators and multidisciplinary artists: Jennif(f)er "JT" Tamayo and Sean Patrick Cain.  Through the unearned privilege of inherited capital and proximity to whiteness, JT and Sean founded wayward in 2022 as a local space for collective imagining.