Assata’s House is a practice, not a place.
It is a living care ecosystem rooted in Black feminist, decolonial, and ancestral traditions — a way of tending to ourselves and each other through everyday rituals that keep us whole.
We design care hubs, sanctuaries, and land-based experiences that model embodied reparations in real time through rest, nourishment, healing access, knowledge restoration, and economic circulation. Our work restores time rhythms, cultural memory, spiritual belonging, and community trust — creating spaces where Black women, Black families, and BIPOC communities can reconnect with land, lineage, pleasure, and collective power.
Care Hubs and Food Access
Assata’s House creates spaces and programs that bring care, connection, and ancestral wisdom into everyday life. We focus on community, offering Black women, Black families, and BIPOC communities ways to rest, nourish themselves, and engage in land-based and holistic practices. Our work honors cultural memory and lineage, helping our people not just get by, but truly thrive.
How We Work
Assata’s House isn’t a traditional organization or collective.
At its core, leadership guides the vision, while collaborators co-create care hubs, workshops, and experiences. Everyone participates with intention, contributing ideas, shaping offerings, and sustaining the health and continuity of the ecosystem. This approach models embodied reparations and cosmological repair, keeping us grounded, adaptable, and relational, and ensuring that everything we do is rooted in care, ancestral knowledge, and collective liberation.
A Living Healing Practice
Assata’s House builds spaces and programs rooted in Black ancestral wisdom. We offer care hubs, learning spaces, and sanctuaries where Black mothers and BIPOC femmes can rest, receive bodywork, connect with cultural memory, and be nourished by community.
We explore ways to support collective care that reconnects people to themselves, each other, and the Earth. Guided by the knowledge and traditions of BIPOC femmes, we preserve healing practices, strengthen caregivers, and help shape the future of care that truly sustains.
Assata’s House is grateful for the funding support that has helped sustain our programs and care-based work. This includes support from the Barra Foundation, Reinvestment Fund, Bread & Roses, and the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health (Maternal and Family Health Division).