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Here’s the thing about freedom— it is a secret from those who can’t hold it sacred.
There’s an interesting built in protection:
people who aren’t tuned to the frequency of liberation, joy, or sovereignty—-well, this all will sound like gobblygoop to you. You will self-select out.
If you self identify as an opp, help is on the way! Opps, you’ll love what we have in store for you.
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Become
the hero
of your
decolonization
story
The Digital Underground Railroad (DURxR) is a multi-year, invitation-only liberation and decolonization journey that combines art, ritual, and Black and Indigenous spiritual technologies.
The Concept: An odyssey crossing both digital and physical landscapes designed to help participants process intergenerational healing and shed systemic oppression.
Riders: Each participant is treated as the hero of their own personal decolonization story.
Dear Riders,
The TETRA Digital Underground Railroad gives you the Tools and Spiritual Technologies to live your own SELF EMANCIPATION story.
Why did you create a Digital Underground Railroad, TETRA?
As survivors of colonization, we have faced down the ghosts of abuse, violence, poverty and betrayal. This nation’s history of slavery, genocide and exploitation is unaddressed and has left a haunt of destruction.
We know intimately the gifts and the wounds that have been passed down our family lines. Working with trauma therapists, neurologists, Indigenous elders and using our own 25 year background as Cultural Architects, TETRA uses art and ritual to create an immersive journey, a real life choose-your-own adventure where you become the hero of your own Digital Underground Railroad story.
What secret are we guarding together?
The Digital Unerground Railroad is a FUGITIVE SPACE — In the face of facism, we are emotionally paralyzed.
Though we are immensely powerful, colonization has stolen our belief in our own power. Today, we are facing ALL of the unaddressed pain of colonialism.
But, we are too siloed and too split to actively resist a regime that is trying to set us back to the antebellum south.
TET—what do we do?
Steal our belief back.
How long does the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure last?
We present The Digital Underground Railroad as a SUSTAINED RITUAL — a series of healings that are interconnected and ongoing. It is a multi-year decolonization journey where each day we take another step toward freeing ourselves from oppression and building the joy, freedom and autonomy that we deserve. It takes time to unlearn oppression and relearn our power. We offer this in small-skilled doses.
What will I transform?
In your TETRA journey, we offer the tools to:
Rejuvenate your Soul.
Rehumanize your Body.
Re-define “power“.
Re-activate your Radical Imagination.
Transform The Culture.
Build a healed world.
What does SELF EMANCIPATE mean, TETRA?
We empower Kinfolk to burn the plantations at each level of their life, reconnect with their most authentic self, and be healther to themselves and each other.
THE TETRA DURxR is a sustained, multi-year love letter to everyone who is ready to finish our Ancestors’ freedom work.
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We are Sherina Rodriguez & Chace Morris. And we are The TETRA.
Artist-healers. Somatic Scientists. TruthTellers. Aquemini. The Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis of this work, opening portals through creating dope shxt, building new culture, and getting free.
To know more, come on in and explore our work.
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We decolonize from the inside out by combining ancestral tradition, artistic invention, and scientific research to create portals to practice what we actually want, who we're really meant to be, how it could be, & who we must be next.
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Over the past 15 years, TETRA has worked with trauma therapists, Indigenous elders, neurologists, artists and survivors to develop a first of its kind methodology to transform a history of interconnected trauma into deliverance.
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We work with communities, individuals and institutions, ready to create cultures of freedom.
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2025 Knight Foundation Awardee
2024 Kresge Live Arts Fellow
2024 Ford Foundation Grantee
2023 Honorary Chair in Urban Education
2023 Radical Imagination Cohort Designer
2022 Creative Capital Finalist
2020 Lewis Prize for Music
2020 Radical Imagination Award
2020 PA Research Award
2019 Self Care & Healing Artist Award
2018 ArtPrize Juror's Short List, "Freedom School"
2017 Knight Arts Challenge Grantee
2018 Map Fund Grantee
voted “Top 20 Most Memorable Moments At The Detroit Institute Of Art In The Past 20 Years”
2018 - Finalist - SOROS Social Justice Fellowship, Open Society Foundation
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This journey is a love letter to Black people, to Indigenous, Asian, Latino, Arabic people and Radical White Accomplices who are interested in transforming the ghosts of oppression into Thrival.
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An underground space to experience refuge, self-determination, and liberation away from systemic oppression. (Taylor & Francis)
A Safe Harbor: It provides physical or emotional shelter from discrimination, social control, and constant surveillance.
Authentic Expression: People can share their true identities, express joy, and practice culture without hiding parts of themselves or fearing judgment.
Quiet Resistance: It bypasses rigid institutional rules, allowing groups to build community and imagine new ways of living
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When we began the journey, there were 12 people. That has grown to over 32,000 people globally.
When many people are working on the same problem together, we create a M-field—an energetic connection where the gains of one person becomes fuel for everyone. The more of us that focus on liberation at the same time, the more healing we energetically send to one another, the faster we create a new sustained energy of hope and transformation.
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Come in…this info is only for Riders.
“Sharpe and Morris enact complex forms of healing and joy in accessible, experential ways.”
Tetra Messages
“The TETRA has created a very unique epistolary space for creating performances via email. They also deliver live rituals for those lucky enough to be in the know.”
-Mary Anderson, Chair of Theater & Dance, Wayne State University
The only way into the Digital Underground Railroad is by invitation. Someone who is already in, must invite you to share their liberation journey.
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The heist begins with a letter containing a liberation ritual. During the journey, you will receive letter and supply drops. Letters are the throughline that guide this real life choose your own adventure. Over the course of the journey, RIDERS will be invited to underground events.
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If you are in—then you already know the answer.
Do you know what we do in the dark?
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Email us at TheTETRA4@gmail.com.
Include your name and what you are leaving behind. We will be happy to give you next steps.
