Raising Luminaries helps overwhelmed caregivers navigate parenting, advocacy & community care.
Raising Luminaries helps overwhelmed caregivers navigate parenting, advocacy & community care.
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“When I discovered Raising Luminaries, it seriously felt like the world shifted, like there could be hope and optimism (and goofy-ness and fun) balanced with reality and hard work."

Ready to center your family's liberation over the comfort of those in power.

Ready to set boundaries around your work to stop burning out.

Ready to contribute to collective liberation as a consirator, not a savior.
Hi, I’m Ashia Ray [they/them], founder and Head Custodian of Raising Luminaries. I create educational resources for overworked caregivers juggling advocacy, parenting, and community care.
As an Autistic, multiracial (Chinese/Irish) parent raising neurodivergent kids, I know what it’s like to feel awkward, unsure, and frustrated in typical parenting and advocacy communities.
With over a decade of experience in disability and racial justice organizing, I'm best suited to helping caregivers who feel out of place in traditional parenting and activist spaces. If you’re unsure whether you belong here - that’s a pretty good sign that you're in the right place.
Land acknowledgements are worthless without action. So we prioritize amplifying Indigenous-lead resources in our toolkits and reciprocate annual donations to our local Wôpanaâk Language school.
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