Olive’s bright light shone on our path forward. Without her, we find ourselves more than a little lost. Olive was a writer, artist, musician, carpenter and traveler who wanted nothing more than to create a better world.

Olive is survived by her chosen family - Hal, Jack, Tait, Nique, & Liv, her birth family - Miriam, Jonathan, & Ninevra, and by many, many other adoring family members, friends, co-workers and co-conspirators. In the face of this unfathomable loss we consider what we may each be able to do to address the transphobia and misogyny that the world tried to impose on her, to transform health care, education and housing systems that should have supported her better, to abolish policing in all its forms, and to end fascism, capitalism and the domestication of what is wild.

At the time of their death, Olive was working for the Youth Conservation Corps in Vermont as a carpenter. They built contact station cabins and structures for composting toilets. They took pride in measuring rafters and pounding nails efficiently by hand. Among the birch trees at Groton State Park, they lived with their crewmates and earned credits toward college tuition. After this work, Olive planned to work with land protectors to stop the expansion of Line 3 (https://www.stopline3.org/) and develop the tools to support border aid with No Más Muertes (No More Deaths, https://nomoredeaths.org/abou…) with this future in mind, they aimed to continue developing building and farming skills and planned to steward a plot of land in Vermont with friends.

In love, rage, and solidarity forever.

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