A Rootline Productions project

Woke Nation

This isn’t your ordinary church, and this sure as hell isn’t your ordinary service. We don’t do fake polish here, and we don’t sanitize the pain.

Come as you are.

Woke Nation begins with the gods—lowercase, plural—and we aren’t asking you to blindly believe a damn thing.

We’re asking you to open your eyes. To look at the stories we inherited, the systems we built, the histories we were taught, and the things we learned not to question.

This is a space for examination rather than performance. For conversation rather than certainty. For the uncomfortable questions that can become invisible when a culture gets too comfortable with its own answers.

You don’t have to arrive with the answers. You only have to be willing to look.

Why “Woke Nation”?

Because waking up is not a finish line. It is a practice.

Woke Nation uses storytelling, reflection, history, culture, spirituality, and visual media to examine what happens when inherited ideas become unquestioned truths.

Some conversations will be gentle. Some will not. The point is not to manufacture outrage. The point is to make room for seeing—clearly, honestly, and with enough humility to recognize that seeing something differently can change us.

Start here.

Woke Nation unfolds through episodes, reflections, and recurring creative works.

Kotodama is one of those forms: a continuing series built around words, memory, history, responsibility, and reflection.

Kotodama I

Back From The Grave

Four movements: Awaken; Now Do You See?; Lest We Forget; Kotodama Ruminations.

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The archive

Kotodama

Explore the series, its philosophy, and future episodes as they are released.

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Look closer.
Remember more.

Woke Nation is an invitation to stay awake long enough to notice what we’ve been taught to overlook.