About Alexis

Portrait by Emily Sorlien | Brand Identity by Swail Studio

I’m [Alexis P. Morgan], and I'm a Jewish Black & Indigenous femme multimedia artist, writer, and muse with over 15+ years of experience as a spiritual guide, specializing in advising and mentoring high-performance professionals, community leaders, and creatives who are pioneers and innovators in their field.

In my deliciously cultivated & frequent downtime is spend working as an artist and designer through various mediums, particularly writing, fashion, interiors, collage, textiles, mixed media, and sacred + ritual toolmaking. When not enjoying the fruits of peace and relaxation, I am 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 also formerly served 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.

As a long-time Internet denizen, but one who was too young and too amixed to capitalize on the heyday of blogging culture, Facebook was my original digital scrapbook. I built a large following of over 6,000+ people there, and that following got me to dip my toes in as an early adopter of Patreon and dabbling on Medium, riding the momentum of digital democratization and corporate enshittification as it rolled across the Internet tides. Now I’ve landed here on Substack, where once again I was an early observer and now mid/late-term adopter, having decided Ghost and Beehiiv just weren’t clicking in my brain. I wanted a place to document my quest 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, and I think this is the best place to start.

I hope you stay around and voyeur productively for the rest of the ride.

XOXO,
Alexis

Support My Work

As someone committed to building a culture of reciprocity, driven by inherent dignity, care, and mutual benefit, if you love what I share and have the means, you should absolutely support my work. Here are the ways you can do that:

• Become a paid Substack subscriber → For $18 USD/month, $360 USD/year, or anywhere up to $3,600/year if you’d like to be a Generous Benefactor, you can support what I create + curate here and across ye olde Internet.
  
  Because I try not to paywall my creativity, the main perks are getting access to my subscriber-only chat, knowing you’re supporting a culture that rejects “content creator” churn, and that 36% of my revenue after taxes + processing fees will go towards supporting values-aligned community organizing through Accomplis Collective, and access to ancestral healing regardless of class through Mambo Tann’s Effective Spirits.
  
  P.S. - Two very important things: 1) Please note that all paid subscribers - past and present - are also added to my off-Substack mailing list. 2) The amount for the subscription adjusts to your local currency and will charge you more if you go through the app, so subscribe from a desktop browser if you can!

  
  

• Support me through Buy Me A Coffee → Way back in the day, I was one of the first adopters of Buy Me A Coffee, which is why they were my first choice for a supplemental platform to Substack, especially if this diary of mine turns into more diverse forms of services or educational resources. If you’d like to make a one-time contribution or subscribe for less than $18 USD/month, Buy Me A Coffee is the right spot for you!
  

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.

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 genealogical kinship ties are harder to document as a consequence, 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 through my maternal lineage, to feel comfortable with accepting that my biological mother was likely being truthful about her (and subsequently my) identity. 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 Eastern seaboard coastline (including Gullah-Geechee people), some of whom migrated West and North. My direct ancestors primarily settled into the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains (where I was born), and up into the Midwest, specifically Chicago; and my Black ancestors by adoption hail from Louisiana as part of the Lee family, migrating through Texas due to racist violence and an attempted lynching of our family’s patriarch, and out to Portland, Oregon, where most of them live today.