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TETRA, put me on—
If you are here, asking these questions, then— you are a RIDER. THE DIGITAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IS AN INITIATION INTO YOUR POWER.
The Digital Unerground Railroad (DURxR) is a FUGITIVE SPACE — We pull up (in person and digitally), we make space to get free.
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.
The TETRA Digital Underground Railroad gives you the consistent practice to live a RICH life of purpose, abundance, beauty, safety, joy, dignity—and surrounded by a nourishing community.
This website is a digital HUSH HARBOR. Within, these digital walls, everyone is on their own journey to step into our gifts and self-emancipate.
What does SELF EMANCIPATE mean, TETRA?
We empower you to transform, torch the plantations at each level of your life, reconnect with your most authentic self, and be healthier to yourself and others.
THE TETRA DURxR is a sustained, multi-year love letter to everyone who is ready to finish our Ancestors’ freedom work.
Bet…how do I get to freedom?
In the face of facism, we’re emotionally paralyzed. The world is in collapse under the weight of 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.
Though we are immensely powerful, colonization has stolen our belief in our own power.
TET—what do we do?
Steal our power back.
Love it! A Heist?
Welcome to the Greatest Heist Since Harriet.
YES!!! To steal our power back…
Power is your ability to transform anything into the Highest Good.
Rider, you have survived the unthinkable. 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 has been a gauntlet of painful experiences—that would try to make us believe that we are not worthy.
AND You are one of the most powerful people on Earth. Equal to the amount of pain we’ve held are GIFTS—talents, inner genius—some passed down our ancestral line to us, some innate gifts. The Digital Underground Railroad is a collection of rituals, one ritual per day to reawaken your gifts, your genius. To move the pain out of the way and rediscover the magic that you hold.
Together—we have the collective energy to transform this world into the one we deserve.
Sustained Ritual, what’s that?
We present The Digital Underground Railroad as a SUSTAINED RITUAL — a system of healings that are ongoing. 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:
Rehumanize your Body.
Re-define “power“.
Re-connect to your inner knowing.
Re-activate a healed Imagination.
Transform Your Culture.
Build a healed world.
What time do we ride?
Now.
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 create power that moves backward to heal our Ancestors and forward to transform the world for future generations.
Riders: Each participant is treated as the hero of their own personal decolonization story.
TETRA, help me orient to this new world.
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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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Anything that is draining your life-force.
Anything exploiting you.
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You got to experience it to see.
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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.
