THE FUTURE IS US, with possibilities as abundant as the dreams of our ancestors and our hopes for our children. The senselessness of our now is giving way to a collective stirring, the conviction that there is a better way — that abundance, health, justice, love and belonging are things we can grow in this world by our own hands.
Read MoreOur annual Top Social Justice Memes considers memes used or created by our movements to challenge the status quo and shape politics and pop culture. This year, democracy — the ideal, the vision, the value — is the thing we are concerned with.
Read MoreNominations are open! This year's edition of Top Memes will focus on narrative interventions for democracy. What images, messages, actions or other containers of meaning are our movements using to expand and champion "rule by the people"?
Read MoreThe practice of land acknowledgements is a well-intended attempt by non-indigenous organizations to address a broken collective relationship with history, the erasure of genocide and colonization, and alienation from the land upon which human life depends. And, the most well-intended narrative interventions can still be bent to the will and need of domination and power-over.
Read MoreThe defense of “Black Life” necessitates the valuing of Black Lives AND Blackness in all its forms, shifting the problem towards “the WAR on Black people.” And this moment of the twin pandemics of “COVID” and “police violence” further reveals that “stop killing Black people” is about way more than police accountability.
Read More“This is the year our babies stop playing with police cars and instead use their hands to plant seeds 🌱.” Participants in the 2020 Advanced Practitioner’s Training closed the week together by composing a “This is the Year” poem. Here it is.
Read MoreAs we decided to shift the Advanced Training (AT), our regular offering to our movement communities, to online, we wanted to lean into the visionary opportunities. We mourned the loss of all the in-person parts of the training and then moved into radical imagination.
Read MoreOnce upon a time a group of strangers sat together in a dimly lit room to share stories, struggles and heartbeats. After a week of spending more time listening than speaking, all these amazing folks came to the realization that they were not really strangers but just friends who hadn’t met yet...
Read MoreFree tools available now to boost your imagination! Step into #the4thBox in a game on your phone, in an online course, and with downloadable PDF tools. We're making these resources free to our movement community to better support our ability to dream big in this critical moment. We can only go where we’ve first imagined.
Read MoreAs a queer women of color led organization, we know that frontline leadership looks different for each issue and in each place. We acknowledge the expertise — and look to the leadership of — those who have already been coming together to survive, that is: organizing in the current economy that invisibilizes and ignores them
Read More“I picked up Pleasure Activism because I’ve long been a fan of and been a learner from adrienne’s writing - and was really curious about the book because so many people were talking about it, especially at this past year’s CSS Advanced Practitioners’ Training. I was also drawn to it because I’ve long been interested in how we stay in movement work for the long haul given the enormous and intensifying political conditions we live in.”
Read MoreOur annual Top Social Justice Memes considers memes used or created by our movements to challenge the status quo and shape politics and pop culture.
Read MoreIt's an annual Center for Story-based Strategy tradition to create a list of the Top Social Justice Memes for the year!
Read MoreI have had the opportunity to work and share in various spaces and with wonderful people who have helped me grow politically, spiritually, and in movement work. Friends and family introduced me to questions, thoughts, and actions that made me more politically conscious growing up. I was part of anti-corruption/violence, land rights, and gender rights campaigns in Mexico…
Read MoreI'm a Southern Black queer writer and editor, youth advocate, and communications strategist who believes in the transformative power of storytelling to uproot racist systems and change culture. My journalistic practice is a love of language, a pirouette with Black Queer Feminist (BQF) praxis, and a forever connection to Black womxn and girls who channel generational struggle into generational healing, wisdom, and truth…
Read MoreWe find that fitting the right warm-ups, ice breakers and check-in questions to the topics of meetings can help frame and inspire the coming conversation and help get everyone in the mood and mindset for the group work ahead in the agenda.
Read MoreParticipants in the 2019 Advanced Practitioner’s Training closed the week together by composing a “This is the Year” poem together.
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