Welcome to TAINT 2025!

Check out The Call if you haven't had a chance to do so yet.

If you have not yet registered for TAINT 2025, you can do so at: TAINT 2025 Registration!

Alternative Registration

If you're having trouble with the Cryptpad link above, please:

1. Copy the registration questions below
2. Paste them into an email
3. Add your answers under each question
4. and Email your responses to TAINT.2025@proton.me!

Faerie name. What name do you like to be called? Magical name, nickname or just your first name.

What are your pronouns?

What is your email?

What is your phone number?

What is your signal username?

Which days will you be at TAINT? Setup is July 8th and 9th. The main gathering runs July 10th - 16th. Cleanup/Teardown is July 17th and 18th.

We are asking those in attendance to bring a food donation to the land. Will you be able to bring food to help stock our kitchen this gathering? Please note we are not offering reimbursement for food during this gathering.

What kind of food can you bring?

Would you like to help in the kitchen? If so, how? Any level of involvement is welcome from just volunteering to help out someone who's planning a meal, all the way up to planning a meal, bringing all the ingredients and organizing the cooking of said meal. Volunteering for multiple meals in the same or different capacities is also welcome and encouraged! The more details the better, especially if you would like to coordinate a meal. :)

What are your dietary needs? Please keep in mind due to the fact that our kitchen is running on a food donation-based system, if you have very specific dietary needs we may not be able to fully accommodate you but will work with you to the best of our ability.

Please list the specifics of your dietary needs and allergies here. Please note the severity of your allergies. Again, depending on the severity of your allergy or dietary need you should plan to bring your own food as we cannot 100% guarantee that we will be serving food that meets your needs. We will do out best to prevent cross-contamination, but it is a chaos kitchen. You will have access to a shared fridge and shared cooking facilities.

Please plan on contributing a couple hours a day in creating this gathering and to serving community needs. Aside from food related help (which extra contribution is needed in) what other volunteer activities would you like to assist with on the land? Options include: Welcome Tent, Ritual Planning, Evening Entertainment Events, Access Bees to Support the Access Queen, a runner to pick folks up arriving in town, Garden Give-Back, Medical Support, Wicked Witness (providing emotional support), Facilitation of Circles, Facilitation of Workshops, Onsite Communications, Dishes.

If you are interested in leading an event/ritual/workshop of some kind, please share a summary about what you'd like to do including any potential support you'll need from the organizers to make it happen.

Tell us about your access needs. Although some are so widely accommodated that we don't think of them as access needs, everybody has them. We have very limited indoor housing. Please let us know about any mobility needs, need for electricity for medical equipment, sensitivities, if you need your food brought to you, or maybe something else?

Service Animals. Nomenus's policy does not allow pets at gatherings. If you require a service animal or emotional companion animal to attend the gathering, please provide information on your service animal below. Our Access Queen will follow up with you prior to the gathering. We do not have space to accommodate personal pets. Please make arrangements for your pets to be taken care of elsewhere. Service animals, including emotional support animals and companions of our home-free/traveling/vehicle-inhabiting community members are welcome with a conversation with the Access Queen Banshee

I have read and agree to abide by the TAINT 2025 Community Agreements!

I have read and agree to abide by the Nomenus Community Interaction Agreements!

To help keep each other safe, we ask that all attendees mask 5 days prior to TAINT, test negative before leaving for the Sanctuary and take a COVID-19 rapid test upon arrival to the gathering, and then every day when you are on the Land. Please bring enough tests for yourself and extra tests if you have them. The Garden House will be a masked space throughout the gathering. Please confirm that you agree to abide by this protocol.

Rideshare.

If you will be looking for a ride to or from TAINT, please add your name and details to the rideshare board!

TAINT 2025 Community Agreements

• Take Covid prevention seriously! Mask for 5 days prior, test negative before coming, again after arrival, and every day for the duration of your stay.
• Garden House is a masked-only space.
• Consent is fucking mandatory!
• Fighting white supremacy is mandatory! If you need help understanding something, ask a white organizer.
• No pictures on the land without consent! No pictures taken during ritual without consent! Do not post photos of altars or the Ancestor Room on social media. Do not post pictures of people taken at this gathering, even people in the background of a shot, on social media!
• Be responsible for all items you bring to the Sanctuary. Pack It In - Pack It Out. Clean up MOOP (Matter Out Of Place) aka misplaced items and trash, even if it’s not yours. Leave your camping space and our whole Sanctuary in a better condition than you found it.
• Please use all substances intentionally, mindfully, and with respect for yourself and those around you.
• Use alcohol in moderation, and only in designated spaces (parking lot or ritual container).
• If mind-altering substances and medicines are consumed, either individually or in ritual, we ask that these intentions be held:
  • To honor the ancestors and to ask for their blessings
  • To create a strong container and a clear conduit for our personal and collective magic
• Respect fire safety rules! No campfires will be allowed at TAINT. Please smoke only in designated areas:
  • The Dirty Rabbit Hole
  • The South Side of the fire pit
  • In the parking lot, while standing/sitting/lying/squatting/remaining still
  • The Maxi Pad
• Heart Circles and clearing circles are substance-free space. Garden House is a sober space throughout the gathering. 
• Please refrain from use of “white powder” drugs. That said, many of us will have NARCAN on us and it will be available in the Barn, Garden House, and the Pump House.

Nomenus Community Interaction Agreements!

As participants in Nomenus meetings and online spaces, we abide by the following agreements to the best of our ability.

1. Alignment with mission. As members and friends of Nomenus, we work together to advance its mission “to create, preserve and manage places of cultural and spiritual sanctuary for Radical Faeries and their friends to gather in harmony with nature for renewal, growth and shared learning.”
2. Group focus. Nomenus meetings and online spaces exist for dialogue and collaboration among members and friends who are contributing to the work of Nomenus. To help keep discussion focused, please don’t bring in unrelated topics or post outside announcements.
3. Civility and respect. We aspire to treat each other in ways that are respectful, kind, and positive. Strong feelings and passionate points of view are welcome; blaming, flaming, and personal attacks are not. We aspire to build a culture of appreciation, accountability, constructive feedback, and trust.
4. Subject-subject awareness. We interact as equals and acknowledge the existence of multiple equally valid points of view. Especially in online interactions, where all we see is pixels on a screen, we remind ourselves that behind others’ words are living, breathing, vulnerable human beings, with feelings that are just as real as our own.
5. Consensus decision making. We commit to the communal practice of consensus decision making. We work together to find solutions that everyone can live with, and trust our group wisdom to come up with better ideas than any of us could have alone. For more on consensus, see this list of resources.
6. Assume good intentions. We try to stay low on the “ladder of inference” by giving each other the benefit of the doubt, speaking in personal rather than global terms, and asking open-minded questions before jumping to conclusions.
7. Come clear-headed. In the interest of individual presence and group clarity, we agree not to be impaired by substance use at meetings.
8. Learn from conflict. We’re learning to meet conflict with empathy and curiosity, and to let it be a catalyst for learning. In challenging or conflictual interactions, here are some things we can try:
   • Listen with the heart
   • Notice uncomfortable moments and name painful feelings
   • Practice “do-overs”
   • Ask for specific changes in behavior
   • Seek common ground, rather than getting stuck in positions
   • Step away from the computer
   • Speak with the other person directly
   • Look at and own our shit (negative feelings and unskillful behavior)
   • Call a small circle to hold a space of witness and support for all parties
9. Accountability. We agree to be accountable for our tone as well as our content, and for the impact of our actions as well as our intentions. When we receive feedback regarding our interactions, we try to learn from it.
10. Transparent and accessible process. We commit to group process that is inclusive, accessible, and transparent. This includes announcing meetings in advance, posting agendas ahead of time when feasible, keeping and posting minutes, and accommodating remote participation.
11. Co-facilitation and empowered moderation. We each take responsibility for speaking up as needed on behalf of these agreements. We trust and empower our online moderators and circle facilitators to care for our collective containers, which includes identifying repeated instances of challenging behavior, working with participants to improve it, and setting boundaries on behalf of the group.
12. Stay informed and get involved. We make the effort to read recent minutes and supporting documents posted in the Google Drive and talk to others who are involved. Online discussions support—but do not replace—the work that occurs at meetings of our circles.