Devynn Emory

i changed two of my answers at the end of my 5 hour board NP exam, and failed by two questions. the teaching coming through: trust your intuition, and…my goodness is the system bananas hard for a dyslexic with a million jobs, in debt, while caring for ill family. i wanted to share the success story of completing this 13th year of study with relief but this platform is silly if it’s for shiny things only don’t ya think? i wanted a break, and need one, and it will come. i will continue to study in every crevice around too much work until it’s done. shoutout to all of us sprouting up despite the cards delt, pushing through, the single parents and nightshifters the many job holders, and those of us caring for ill family, those without class privilege, grinding to get ahead for the hope of stability and relief that others have been given. incredibly inspired by my classmates and colleagues moving in western medicine for a steady life in service and in community with the public. this is the real stuff we don’t share anymore in the accolades academy of this space spliced with the horrors we can’t discuss. this is part of it. i am so proud of how far i have come. i am so proud of my runaway ass and i will never give up and will get to the end of this incredibly challenging chapter despite many obstacles. humbled for the opportunity to keep trying. grateful for chosen family cheering me on who get it. this delay impacts every area of my life, but nothing like more fire in the fire. so grateful for so much abundance. i will stay steady and studying and missing you for now and, i will get there. i always do. 🔥

Meet our guest speakers. ✨ We’re excited to welcome an inspiring lineup of artists, cultural leaders, and advocates for the Our New York City Dance 2026 Campaign Launch on March 25 at 12:00 p.m. ET on Zoom. Featuring: 💫 devynn emory 💫 Gonzalo Casals 💫 Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Together, they’ll help ground a conversation about what it takes to build a more just, equitable, and sustainable future for dance in NYC. Join the conversation! Register today at Dance.NYC/OurNYCDance #OurNYCDance Image descriptions in comments.

i insist on being with illness, death and grief as a holy act toward refusal of numbness, as insistence on trans and 2S survival as an invitation to be with indigenous peoples across the world reminding you to be with the truth and how your body holds histories in turtle island. let’s not wait for more constant emergency for you too before you hold your neighbors hand to weep. @jeffrune invited me to get bigger and it’s the parenting and belonging in community love i needed. join me in this grief movement, come by the fire, you are welcome to practice the teachings of grief. unfurling into the afterworld of “boiling rain” in micro and macro response to @jeffrune at @massmoca . gratitude to all audience participants joining when we shouted “can anybody help me hold this body”. i insist on training as an RN, healer and maker of gathering us- to hold yours. gratitude to my cousins @vdionf and @hall_me_maybe for quill, costume and language support, to @deiiewennahkwa @_____marcelatorres______ @davidthomson.nyc @r_e_a_c_h_o_u_t and @ddbbaammoorriinn for adorning our most recent fallen medical mannequin and elder, to @holland.andrews and @r_e_a_c_h_o_u_t for ascending us back to our bodies in joy and vibrating with our ancestors to the sun and skies. gratitude to my baddie auntie sisterhood pack @mauranguyendonohue and @acanarytorsi for dancing and walking beside me through this massive spiritual portal with the public. gratitude to @rhoran13 for stage and production detail, for 10 years of this grief trilogy and @massmoca production team for generous collaboration into late nights to be with the star world together, to @mylochoy and Ais Oisín for moving my costume visions forward and to @_niknaz_ swinging in to film with such grace and vision. gratitude to all of the folks woven through the show who buoyed me and my family lines next to yours. forever changed to make this with all of you. i am called to be alive with Spirit because of all of the circles we are making together. “boiling rain” will continue to boil. may the warmth of the steam reach your lungs as we breath through more loss of our healthcare workers and neighbors and selves.

to celebrate survivance and thrivance is more important each day when people close and far want you gone. a path of seeing your joy which brings me joy while trying to hold onto mine is a practice one day at a time. i am so humbled to continue making my performance work in a time of dedicated growing in the medical and medicine fields. my pathways are so woven at this point i can’t imagine one without the others. i am so grateful to share that i am an awardee of the 2026 @creative_capital grant! i will be continue working on my last piece of a 10 year grief trilogy. i have been blessed with so much community support and my collaborators on each work are incredible! the next iteration of “boiling rain” will be at mass moca Jan 24. i will continue to work on this project and all its extensions in 2026. swoon. just in time for me to move back into full time work at the hospital to pay down some of this tuition while study for my PMHNP board exam. my private practice of body work, channeling and somatics “sage” will continue to pause until i sit for boards, thank you for your patience. life continues to grow and i can’t do it without you, my chosen family, my kin, and my connection to Creator. humbled. much gratitude!!✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

it is a dream come true to be invited by such a wonderful guide in many of our communities @jeffrune to engage and respond to his work POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT with a supportive team at @massmoca on jan 24, 2025 at 4pm. Jeff has a way of seeing a fire within those of us wondering and wandering artists, and this invitation to hold the hxtory of the term “two-spirit” (2S) has me unfurling in ways i didn’t know were possible. he mothers us into belonging. this new research will be the beginnings of “boiling rain”, the final work of the trilogy #mymannykinfriends that spans 10 years of grief work as an RN turned NP while creating this body alongside me for 10 years. we invite you inside of Jeff’s colorful installation holding regalia and aliveness with the booming sounds from @r_e_a_c_h_o_u_t asking us all to gaze up. for me this asks me to look toward the star beings and sky world and to welcome all of the ancestors from this trilogy as we call in a new elder into transition. you are invited to this procession and tending, both for our elder and our healthcare workers in durational distress over the never ending emergent response to the collapse of supremacy. our bodies are breaking and together we are fracturing into what’s next. i am humbled to bring into the space, dancers @acanarytorsi , @mauranguyendonohue and composer @holland.andrews with costume contributions by @vdionf . honored to be amongst many 2S contributors to this show. *this show is free with museum entry so get your tikkies loves!

dec2, 2025 i graduated with my psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner degree. it has been a liberating journey toward more stability and autonomy tangled with exhaustion and overextension and debt. i am humbly bone tired and incredibly grateful for so many chosen fam swooping in around this threshold, many more not photographed. i push for the stars for myself, my family lines and my communities and i couldn’t do any of it without you all. i will be studying my lil tail off for my board exam while prepping boiling rain for January. find me to co-work! *moving images made by @colettka_cutletka of @vdionf quill brilliance *beadwork by @vdionf and @roin.beads

so grateful to be Awarded a New York State Council on the Arts to support the creative work of my project in development- boiling rain. sponsored by @chocolatefactorytheater . this award will fund boiling rain through New York State’s continued investment in arts and culture. grateful to all who have supported the development thus far! @rivervalleyartscollective and @olgadekalo @alheldfoundation , @upstateartweekend and @helentoomer , @massmoca and @jeffrune (showing/activation/response jan24!) this work will be the accumulation of the 10 year mark of the grief trilogy #mymannykinfriends, paralleling my 10 year mark studying and practicing nursing and becoming a prescribing provider through global pandemics. humbled for every being who has touched and witnessed and held it with me. the last work of this trilogy focuses upward on the sky world as our medical mannequin moves toward the stars. it centers breath, our collective breathing, the last breath, and the durational decline of healthcare workers. grateful to all my collaborators past and upcoming in so many ways for help in my the rain stay boiling: @acanarytorsi @mauranguyendonohue @picchurris @rhoran13 @o_____g_____a @chloealxandra @holland.andrews @hall_me_maybe @vdionf . see you at the next development on jan24- link in bio boos! ✨🌿✨🌿✨🌿✨🌿✨🌿✨🌿✨🌿

this platform is no longer a place for sharing reality and truth for some. i don’t have energy to start a substack and i miss these love letters to you. i miss live journal. i miss your fierce brains and takes. i am well aware, and trust we each have strategy based on individual life circumstance and risk. i drink up your aliveness news that’s left so i will attempt to share mine as a small extension of connection as we pivot to old ways. thank goodness for that. here are some micro updates. i graduate as a psychiatric mental health practitioner on dec2nd. 13 years of college is no joke nor is western psychiatry. i am incredibly grateful for all that cheered me on, for my preceptors, and for choosing unlearning as i learn to prescribe + diagnose the impact of all this. this field has been harmful and, it can be a fantastic tool to keep us focused on resisting the takeover of the mind when utilized with tools of rebalancing to our innate wisdom and connection to the natural world. i will be looking for a new role to keep learning once i study and sit for my boards. RN to NP, medicine to psychiatry will take time. i will move towards the dream of a holistic private practice that offers many medicines, inch by inch. i am still inpatient as an RN offering transition support and energy medicine at the hospital. i adore this work. i will protect my patients at all costs. i am moving toward the 10 year mark of research and production of the performance trilogy #mymannykin friends, paralleling my 10 year mark of studying nursing. the final piece, “boiling rain” is in process. my incredible collaborators and i will share some of the research in activation of Jeff Gibsons show- “powerful because we are different” in the afternoon on jan24 at mass moca. come out! can’t wait to have you there. sage, my massage+ practice since 2002 is still on pause until i get this next license. i will post the re-opening. i am splitting time in the city and the woods. learning how to make black walnut ink from the land is my latest crush. i am caring for aging family, meeting new relatives, staying close to Spirit. come over for a fire or a walk. i hope we meet again in person soon.

little words to share my heartbeat for all of the beautiful people i met, sweat, sang, danced with and were supported by. humbled to represent turtle island and to bring some of my somatic practices to share the behind the scenes steadying i move with to create the choreographic and medicinal pathways i walk with. grateful to be joined by chosen fam to cheer me on. special shout out to kin and mob and elders i met and to be loved up by my lil niece as i expand. this is a big beginning. we will see each other again beloveds as we keep building these spirit filled paths of freedom. 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿

hello from the humble preparations of a new somatic protocol, “he hollered like an animal”, found through my devotional practices of listening to land, and to the witnessing of increased inflammation in my patients bodies as we continue to build heat inside due to durational crisis in the ew-ess. this heat can be a motivator or a disease maker. for those of us still having choice, i propose this somatic series in collaboration with direction and elements to interocept if the body can be a resource or exterocept if the body is unsafe and the natural world can be an ally. ideally we learn all tools to flex in different moments of resource needed as we return to our animal instincts and stand in the fire.🔥 i am humbly and with wobbly knees traveling internationally during these times, as i have been invited to represent the ew-ess-aye, turtle island 🐢 in conversation with 5 artists from other countries to discuss the critical concerns of our territories and terrains, and what movement and dance can do within a world of crisis. i have dedicated my life to the pathways of dance, hospital medicine, somatic and spiritual medicines and liberation. this offering lands inside of this basket of knowledge. is aliveness still accessible and if so, how can we practice together to our continued survival? grateful for the invitation of 🐢 curator and representative @amattox28 and to @tiagomguedes for hosting us makers from around the world. incredibly humbled to meet at @biennaledeladanse to keep our hands in the dirt together. gratitude to my graphic designer and fam @gracie.aghapour for the collab in making this presentation come to life! 🌀 gratitude to all of my chosen family and community cheering me on.

boy who cried fish. 🐠

incredibly humbled to be continuing this body of work, #mymannykinfriendstrilogy as we approach the 10 year mark. this last part of the body is filled with so much spirit coming forward to be with us in blankets of disappearing. weaving inside of the generous heart of @jeffrune ’s work scored by @r_e_a_c_h_o_u_t at @massmoca we also found sweat, joy, freedom, sex, exhilaration, darkness and multi dimensional conversation. i can’t imagine a more loud invitation to remember my aliveness and everyone who walked a path for me to stay dancing. what an honor to pay that forward with sweat and tears and rage and grief and wonder and resistance and survival. my heart is swollen with presence and sweat flung alllll the way back and allll the way forward. tnx to dancers @mauranguyendonohue , @acanarytorsi and production management @rhoran13 and the care at MM. see you for the show Jan 24, mark your callies.