In many South Asian cultures, “Maasi” means maternal aunt—the sister of your mother. But anyone who’s grown up around maasis knows they’re so much more than a title.

Maasis can be nourishing and nosy, protective and provoking, grounding and overwhelming. They carry the medicine of lived experience—sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter—and the lessons that don’t always come wrapped in tenderness, but often come with love.

At Liberation Maasi’s, we draw on that complexity. We imagine eldering not as perfection but as an imperfect, relational practice. In this space, we play with the role of a maasi as a steward leading towards a more liberatory future.

You don’t have to be South Asian to be a Liberation Maasi. You don’t need to identify as woman, or an aunt, or an elder by age. You just need to be someone committed to care, experimentation, and the slow, transformative and relational work of becoming.