Thirty Sunsets and a Moon is a three-volume archival zine and oral history project preserving the memory of Ashley’s urban forest gatherings with children and their maternal kin in South Central Los Angeles, California from 2018-2023.
Originally inspired by the community cookbooks in her grandmother’s collection, the first volume of Thirty Sunsets and a Moon was created to supplement Ashley’s presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. When the conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ashley and her collaborator, Jessica Lewis of Sugarhouse Workshop, transformed the zine into a public facing, three volume offering that would invite others into a collective re-imagining of how we care for each other in spite of systems of enclosure and isolation.
While volumes one and two are out of print, volume three is scheduled for its limited edition release in Summer 2027. In the meantime, you may engage with the project archive which takes a deeper look into the rich work of each volume and documents the mutual aid projects we have organized around each release. Copies of all volumes can be found at Barnard College Special Collections Zine Library.