About Bunny Morgan-Brown
“O you who linger in the garden, A lover is listening; Let me hear your voice.”
— Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs) 8:13, from the JPS 1985 translation
everything’s more fun when bunny’s got the gun
Hello hello!
I’m Alexis (“Bunny”) Morgan-Brown, and I'm an Afro-Indigenous, Jewish multimedia artist, writer, and parasocial muse.
I spend my deliciously cultivated & frequent downtime working as an artist and designer through various mediums, particularly writing, fashion, interiors, collage, textiles, mixed media, and sacred + ritual tools. When not enjoying the fruits of peace and relaxation, I am also an active fundraiser for the [The Accomplis Collective], a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to gathering + redistributing resources and support to grassroots Black and Indigenous community organizing & artistic projects throughout the United States. I was formerly on the advisory board of [We Make The Path Community Cooperative], a community interest company dedicated to supporting chronically ill, neurodivergent + disabled people in achieving their professional goals through sustainable work practices and entrepreneurship.
Since 2016, my creative activism and work as a spiritual guide + facilitator have generated several million in wealth rematriation & distribution (mostly without the benefit of tax write-off) to leftist grassroots organizing & individual organizers, mutual aid funds, and direct-to-individuals-in-need giving around the world.
I live with my partner & de facto chief-of-staff, RB Brown, and our two cats - Pumpkin and Mushroom, while being the proud aunt of several incredible nieflings. I continue to aspire to inherit the title of “the most exciting [femme] in the world” from Eartha Kitt, by way of a vivid + kindly phantasm of the late Orson Welles.
Who Are My Ancestors?
Ethnically speaking, I was raised as a biracial, Black-Indigenous (Tsalagi/Cherokee) AFAB person, in a culturally Jewish home with queerplatonic guardians.
I was raised primarily around Jewish community and my Jewish family, but due to homophobia and logistical reasons, I was never converted as an infant and did not attend Hebrew School, despite considering myself Jewish. I have chosen to forgo formal reclamation/conversion for a variety of personal reasons, including an inability/unwillingness to lie to a beit din about who I am spiritually and culturally. I have never meaningfully identified as Catholic despite a baptism and a First Communion that I wasn’t thrilled about, but I have always had an affinity for the witchy, and came back to Jewish practice and lifeways as an adult.
In regards to my Indigenous identity, I am not presently an enrolled member of any Cherokee nation at this time. This is not by choice, my adoption records are permanently sealed, and I am working on establishing the relational connections required to re-enter community responsibly without them. However, I know enough about my familial connections through a pretty in-depth survey of my extended cousins to know that say that biological mother was likely being truthful about her (and subsequently my) identity, and feel comfortable disclosing this in the spirit of transparency. However, as a reconnecting/reclaiming, mixed Indigenous person, I try my best to stay in my lane and engage appropriately as to avoid contributing to even inadvertent harm.
My Black ancestors by descent were formerly enslaved persons along the coasts (including Gullah-Geechee people) who migrated West and North into the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains (where I was born), and up into the Midwest; and my Black ancestors by adoption hail from Louisiana as part of the Lee family, migrating through Texas and out to Portland, Oregon, where most of them live today.
