Litia Perta is a writer, teacher, and parent whose work unsettles violent paradigms that sell us separation and call it truth. She is a white, queer, (mostly) gender compliant femme who engages intuitive critical practices and reconnecting to body (earth) to support people in the rebellious act of nourishing their creative joy. She loves cats, the sea, and night, and aims to share with others her often hard-won delight in being a skin and flesh of-this-earth body.
Her PhD is from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley: a mostly challenging experience that she endured with guidance from her mentor Trinh T. Minh-ha. She is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Critical Studies, she received her yoga instruction certificate through Laughing Lotus in San Francisco, and is a certified Compassion Cultivation teacher through Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. She lives on a small island in western Washington that was stewarded for over ten thousand years by the network of people now referred to as Coast Salish.
These days, knitting, running and painting are what help to nourish her joy.
Testimonials
“This winter when I was really struggling with an ongoing work, I started doing one-to-one online sessions with Litia Perta. My expectations were HIGH, since I know what Litia is capable of in terms of thinking, writing, making, caring, helping and counseling. Still, I could never have even guessed how revolutionary this experience would be. Litia’s capacity to listen and to give guidance has radically shifted how I move through my practice as an artist as well as through the world as a human. The way she references theory in one breath, poetry in the next, and astrology in the third makes the sessions feel like part studio visits part therapy, part pure joy. She has taught me to be slower, softer, kinder and joy-er in all that I try to do. If you are someone who needs either or all of that, someone in need of support in your practice, someone who is interested in queer/de-colonial/non-normative modes of thinking and making, someone who want to unsettle the traditional workshop/crit experience - I really hope you get the chance to meet with Litia.”
“I’m grateful for the dependable magic that is our weekly class.”