The Mob & the Medicine
A Ritual Take on Cancellation
March 16, 2027
12:30pm San Francisco | 3:30pm New York | 20:30 Madrid
90 minutes
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About the teaching
Cancel culture is one of the more harmful and enduringly popular public spectacles of our time. The process tends to center around shame and exile: someone is named, judged, and cast out, often quickly, by a crowd that grows as it balloons. It follows an old human pattern of scapegoating, dressed up with an ethic of justice and accountability.
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It’s true that public exile and consequence are sometimes necessary. Real harm happens. Communities need ways to name this and to protect people. And cancel culture reflects a persistent tendency to abandon nuance, discernment, and fair process in favor of quick, reckless performances of justice that often dehumanize people and enact the very troubles they purport to address.
Kai Cheng Thom, Clementine Morrigan, and Daniel Foor have all been through some form of cancellation as public figures. They’ll speak from that experience with honesty and care, each bringing a distinct lens to how cancellations can unfold and what life-affirming alternatives may be possible. Each presenter also brings distinct professional contributions to the need for alternatives to punitive mob behavior.
Clementine Morrigan has been one of the most lucid, enduring, and influential voices on cancel culture. Through her writing and podcast, she has mapped its dynamics and brings hard-won clarity about what it takes to navigate the cancellation process.
Kai Cheng Thom has written and taught extensively on transformative justice, somatics, and re-centering love in movements for social change. She’s a vocal critic of cancel culture and a respected teacher of kind and liberatory approaches to cultural healing.
Daniel Foor brings the perspective of an Earth-honoring ritualist in considering how patterns of scapegoating and exile run through families, lineages, and larger systems, and how relationships with our other-than-human kin can support alternatives to rupture.
Together, they’ll speak to prevention and response, imagining how to avoid the landslide of cancellation in the first place and also what can support healing when it does happen; for those cancelled, those driving the cancellation, and the wider circle around them.
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About the Presenters
Guest Speaker
Kai Cheng is a Chinese-Canadian writer, poet, performer, and community healer based in Toronto and known for her work on queer/trans rights, mental health, and transformative justice. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from McGill University and has worked as a psychotherapist, somatic sex educator, clinical hypnotherapist, and mediator. She is a practitioner of “Loving Justice,” a method she developed for conflict transformation and healing within communities, and the author of Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls (2023).
Guest Speaker
Clementine is a controversial figure, a powerhouse, a writer, and a socialist. She’s been making zines since the year 2000 and is the author of several books that weave magic, sex positivity, leftism and solidarity, trauma healing, and kinder approaches to human culture. She’s one half of the Fucking Cancelled podcast and a vocal advocate for leftist, non-dogmatic, and Earth-honoring alternatives to cancel culture. Her work shines a light into the heart of shame, asking us to lean into our courage and our deep capacity for empathy and compassion. She believes that compassion is both more ethical and more pragmatic than shame.
Founder and Director of Ancestral Medicine
Daniel is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has learned from teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and two daughters near Granada, Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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