we don’t work for “the industry.”
we work for the planet.

THE SPIDERWOMAN NETWORK is a Storyteller, Producer & Showrunner’s Guild for the planetary artist in residence.

we are artists who collaborate with Ancestors, the Spirit World, our Earthly human and more-than-human relatives as a foundational tenant of our creative process.

we bring our storytelling craft back to its ancestral roots, ancient wisdom and thriving village practices.

we ground our projects in Earth-honouring ceremony and ritual, providing essential medicine to the planet.

we dedicate our (he)art work to our beloved kin – across cultures, species, timelines and veils.

In mainstream arts and entertainment industries, they have writer & producer guilds, major networks and big corporate studios.

These are supposed to be places that support Storytellers bring their projects to fruition and develop their craft. They are supposed to help you find mentors, collaborators, funding and jobs. We come to artistic industries in hopes that we can make a living, create meaningful work, and maybe even fall in love or make lifelong friends, partners and family along the way.

As we know, these industries are built on a bedrock of genocide, extraction, colonization and exploitation.

WHAT WOULD CHANGE IF WE COULD CREATE IN A COLLECTIVE ECOSYSTEM THAT PRIORITIZES ANCESTOR VENERATION IN ITS FOUNDATION?

What if we could collectively grow an economy that understands & resources the full experience of creating life and art safely, responsibly and joyfully with Ancestors, Spirit, and the Otherworldly?

What if our younger generations grew up knowing that working for the planet was the most lucrative, joyful, socially celebrated AND practical thing they could do with their lives…

and we could build that for us – now?

we bring together the most brilliant, talented, heartfelt artists, storytellers, space holders, scholars, organizers, healers, ceremonialists & students of life.

CALLING ALL
INTERGALACTIC ROCKSTARS!

this network is for people doing extraordinary work for the planet, and who want to live, work, create, and love in an ecosystem directly dedicated to funding the ancestor healing journey.

SPIDERWOMAN IS FOR YOU IF YOU FALL INTO ANY OF THESE CATEGORIES:

WEST / WATER: You’re building a phenomenal body of artistic work, or multiple interweaving bodies of work across multiple disciplines.

You’re writing a book, play, musical, comic, creating a music album, film, TV series, piece of dance, theatre, visual art…or you have multiple weaving projects on your plate…

Or, you’re an independent artist/practitioner developing and sharing your craft…

…AND you’re invested in creating in a foundation of Ceremony, Ancestor Veneration, and collaboration with the Spirit World.

You can be in any phase of development: emerging, seasoned, dreaming, research, study, experimentation, workshopping, or in a season of mastery, integration, production or dissemination.

EAST / FIRE: You’re building a body of survivor-informed, ancestor-inspired, liberation-focused metaphysical scholarship, methodology, or field of research and knowledge.

This is either your main focus, or you’re creating a body of ancestral teachings and scholarship to go along with your artistic and storytelling projects. Any phase of development is welcome.

NORTH / AIR, WIND & SKY: You’re a student and/or teacher of life: you are essentially in self-guided “ANCESTOR UNIVERSITY.” You need an inspiring ecosystem to learn, share and collaborate.

You are either in a season of wanting to study different healing modalities, develop your artistic craft and spiritual gifts, find your most life changing teachers and mentors, and follow the call of your Spirit.

OR, you are in a phase of teaching, mentoring and giving back to your village. You have gained an exceptional amount of wisdom, expertise and wealth of lived experience. You are well purposed to guide & support the next cycle of emerging Wisdom Keepers.

SOUTH / EARTH: You’re offering and/or building something essential that makes a village thrive.

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Spirit-Led Entrepreneurships, Creative Companies, Safe Houses, Healing Beds, Retreat Centres, Play Spaces, Sanctuary Spaces, Libraries, Temples, Apothecaries

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Mystery Schools, HomeSchools, Radical
Education, Training Clubs for Sports, Crafts or Skill-Building, Community Gardens & Kitchens

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Private or Group Healing, Coaching or Consulting Services, Independent Artists, Crafts-People & Support Workers for Hire, Beloved Stores and Shops… And More!

Any phase of development is welcome: whether you’re already running, getting it off the ground or dreaming it up.

CENTER / ETHER & HEART: You want to dedicate your time to the study of stories as relationship building on all angles: From Self Study to Global Study to Multiverse Study

From intimacy, to the galactic,
to the social and political.
From our relationship to grief
and survivorship,
From movement building,
to our relationships with
Earthly relatives
like animals, plants, & small things,
to the vast wider Universe &
quantum phenomena,
to the most powerful gifts
and gems found
deep in our lineages
and the natural world.
From our relationship to
the Stillness & Quiet
to Transitions, Re-Birthings,
the Unknowable parts of life,
New Adventures,
the Heartbreak and Aliveness of
Starting Over…
From our Future Selves to our Past Lives,
our Ancestors & Descendants,
and everywhere in between…
Our Love of Stories
that we Make and Live Out
as readers, co-creators &
above all,
Good Listeners.

You want resources, support, inspiration and guidance to explore stories & storytelling craft, to address some of the greatest problems and concerns currently in front of humanity, and contribute to co-creating our most magnificent pathways & protocols into a free-er global society.

You want to honour, feed and be fed by the most miraculous parts of our life stories – the parts that dominant culture teaches us to skip over or rush. These are the parts you hold most dear. You want to pour into them, not miss them.

You need an ecosystem designed to resource, inspire and hold you, as you deepen the Fullness of y/our experience in life.

The Life Blood of the SPIDERWOMAN NETWORK is fuelled and powered by a Village Artist Grant Ecosystem.

A Network like this can only exist and thrive when we invest in a movement to take back our power of public funding...

…and the abolitionist relationship values that make village public funding, collective liberation & mass earth stewardship possible.

In 2026 we are hosting a Think Tank and Capacity Building Phase for this dearly beloved Ancestral Promise. LEARN MORE HERE.

WHO ARE YOU?

IF YOU’RE A
GAME CHANGER
GOOD LISTENER
MAGIC BEAN GROWER…

Then Let’s Rock & Roll.

TAKE A BACKSTAGE TOUR.

This video was recorded in June 2025. Shaunga takes her friend Ravyn for a backstage tour of the SPIDERWOMAN Network, and they have a beautiful, meaningful conversation.

In this moment, Shaunga was at the very beginning stages of sharing this vision publicly. If you like watching things as they are in development, or nerding out on behind the scenes goodies – dive in!

Let’s study, develop and build
our craft, projects,
enterprises and dreams
within an ecosystem
that not only understands
the Ancestor healing journey, but
CHAMPIONS IT.

MEET THE WIZARD BEHIND THE CURTAIN

I’m Shaunga. Bengali. Queer. Multi-Gendered. Not Your Average Weirdo. You can read more about my background and spiritual practise on our ABOUT PAGE>>