Shaunga Tagore: Creator & Artistic Director

SHAUNGA TAGORE (she, her, they, we) is a queer, multi-gendered Bengali storyteller & furrever cat mama. She is a writer, director, and artist of many trades. She is a practitioner and teacher of metaphysical art-forms and Ancestor Theatre, with a specialization in erotic theatre, celestial theatre and abolitionist theatre.

Shaunga is a Heavy Duty Healer, Altar Carrier and Medicine Carrier of Folk Magic from lost and found reclaimed traditions from her Bengali lineage, as well as from her queer & trans chosen and adopted lineages.

Currently in her 40s, Shaunga is trained and initiated in her practise at the Doctor level, having recently completed the equivalent of a PhD in what she lovingly calls, The Life and Times of Ancestor University.

Having completed her MA in women & gender studies and creative writing at York University in 2010, instead of pursuing higher ed in academia, she chose instead to invest her all in an abolitionist ancestor healing journey, spiritual decolonization mission, and medicine reclamation promise, sitting in deep study, dream & life apprenticeship with Elders, teachers and peers dedicated to Dalit, Adivasi and Black Feminist liberation, Queer-Trans-Survivor-Disabled Aliveness, Indigenous Resurgence, and Interspecies Solidarity. This includes completing a 9-year rigorous curriculum with SoulShifting Mystery School.

Shaunga is a long-time performance artist, astrologer, celestial wisdom keeper, multiverse historian and burlesque dancer. She works with multiple forms of divination techniques, Planet Whispering technologies and artistic energy healing – a form of reiki from her lineage that roughly translates to, She Who Walks With Healing Hands.

Shaunga’s most dearly held magic is an animal medicine and death walker practise focused on supporting animal elders and their humans, particularly queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, people of colour, survivors and disabled people through animal companion loss, end-of-life, and after-life. This includes an animal whispering practise devoted to the animal kingdom at large, to transform systems of dominance into wholescale global thriving.

In recent years, Shaunga has turned her attention toward regenerative ecosystems, sovereign village funding models, and grief-centered, abolitionist, thriving village economic systems. This includes her vision and design for a Village Artist Grant Ecosystem, and a multi-generational, multi-species movement of artists, athletes and humans who do not work for capitalist/colonial industries, because we work for the planet.

Shaunga is currently growing an apothecary of storytelling tinctures, running an ancestors writers room, and developing her podcast drama, magical reality TV for the revolution, into her first animated TV series.

Shaunga is the proud founder and artistic director of OTHERWORLDLY GIANTS (and the small things)

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A VIPP SPACE

A VERY IMPORTANT PLANETARY PROJECT

values ✰ interests ✰ principles ✰ priorities

OTHERWORLDLY GIANTS
is a Survivor & Trans Led Company,
that prioritizes the leadership,
wealth & well-being of racialized artists & healers.
We hold Intergenerational
and Inter-Species Collaboration as Beloved.
We work in Solidarity with Black, Indigenous,
Dalit/Adivasi, Queer, Trans, Disabled
and Sex Worker Feminism.
We prioritize the thriving of the
Global South and our
More-Than-Human Relatives.
We Honour the Promise
of a Free P🍉lestine,
and we co-create in Solidarity with
our anti-zionist Jewish friends.
We Live in Devotion
to the Unseen, the Great Mystery,
to our Cosmic, Soul & Star Lineages.
This is not a place for
Anti-Mysticism.
But rather, a World
…and a Home,
to fall in love with our Humanity
and the Universe,
again and again.

ESTEEMED EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

“THE SMALL THINGS”

ON THIS PHOTO: a soft purple sparkly background. Rahel tries to relax on a pillow sitting on Shaunga’s clothing unit, but Estha has crawled onto her, using her as his pillow.
THEME: “what you gotta put up with when you know someone really well.“

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