Our annual Top Social Justice Memes considers memes used or created by our movements to challenge the status quo and shape politics and pop culture.
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It's an annual Center for Story-based Strategy tradition to create a list of the Top Social Justice Memes for the year!
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I 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…
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I'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…
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We 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.
Read MoreIn terms of imagination building power, this was the first and only action I’ve done where the police arrived on scene, saw what was happening, and then left. The whole scene was incredibly haunting. Everybody, and I mean everybody, stopped what they were doing and fell silent. And I believe it was in part because people were imagining themselves, their kids, their family, in the cage.
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Learning a new language means rediscovering how your mouth and your voice work together. Earlier that year, I felt cut off from both. I had always considered myself an activist and a writer. But I noticed a shift. I had stopped writing, and focused solely on activism work. I was leading campaigns against corporations and corrupt politicians – and some of them were even working – but I was burning out.
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“When you’re trying to do organising work, if you don’t address those underlying narratives and work to both shift them – shift away towards more liberation – but also to create alternative narratives that are really about liberation, then it’s going to be really difficult to do that work. That’s really why we got started.“
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The dominant narratives are asking the wrong questions. Our analysis and our solutions will depend on the questions we ask ourselves. Why are there more than 10,000 people leaving their homes, their families? Why are they going to the US? It is a complex situation and there are no easy answers, no easy solutions.
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