the resources
Every week, we’ll update this page with the resources we ask that you engage with as homework before our upcoming call. Check it out below!
Session one
introductions, defining activism + community agreements
This week, watch the video or listen to the audio below and choose 3 or more of the resources below to engage with. Let them inform some of your thinking around the prompts as we’ll talk about them during our group call!
Thinking/Writing Prompts:
- What is your perspective on activism? How do you define it? What are your strengths/gifts? Do you think/feel that you are using your strengths and gifts? What are you not using? What are your activism strengths?
- What kind of space do you hope to co-create with us? What are some community agreements or guidelines that you think we could implement to help create that?
Developing a Liberatory Consciousness by Dr. Barbara Love (PDF)
Reflections on Liberation by Suzanne Pharr (PDF)
The Transformative Power of Practice by By Ng’ethe Maina and Staci Haines (PDF)
8 Steps Toward Building Indispensability (Instead of Disposability) Culture from Everyday Feminism (Article)
Recognizing When We Get It Wrong and Forgiving Ourselves Afterward from TBINA (Article)
Simple But Not Easy: 25 Steps to Justice by Cody Charles (Article)
False Memories: Trauma and Liberation by Aurora Levins Morales (PDF)
Liberation Theory: A Working Framework By Ricky Sherover-Marcuse (Article) – ignore the “colour blind” header, please. We’re not advocating for that way of thinking. It’s often used as an excuse for racism and the term itself is ableist.
P.S. Make sure to go and join your cohort’s private Facebook group! For the Cohort 2 (Monday), click here. For Cohort 3 (Wednesday) cohort, click here.
session two
identity, intersectionality and self/collective care
This week, check out the audio/video with Desiree Adaway and the bolded resources below and then choose at least 2-3 of the other resources to engage with. On our call, we’ll be doing some storytelling on the prompts below so take some time before to consider them!
Thinking/writing prompts:
- Choose a privileged identity you hold. What has your experience of this identity been? What have you been socialized to believe about this identity? How does this identity affect the way you show up?
- Choose a marginalized identity you hold. What has your experience of this identity been? What have you been socialized to believe about this identity? How does this identity affect the way you show up?
Desiree Adaway is a coach, nonprofit consultant and facilitator who focuses on leadership, diversity and liberation. To find out more about her and her work, visit desireeadaway.com or connect with her on Facebook (she’s always sharing inspiring, thought-provoking and educational content)!
Cycle of Socialization + Cycle of Liberation by Bobbie Haro (PDF)
The Social Identity Wheel (PDF)
Privilege, Oppression and Difference by Allan Johnson (PDF)
There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions by Audre Lorde (PDF)
The Combahee River Collective Statement (Article)
What are pronouns? (a short overview of honoring each other’s genders) by Minus18 (Video)
The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw (Video)
From Self Care to Collective Caring by Leah Harris (Article)
Love, manifested (a poem defining oppression and liberation) by Andréa Ranae (PDF)
**Reminder to breathe and seek nourishment/care this week.**
We’ll be talking a bit about self/collective care methods and sharing knowledge with each other on the call too!
session three
the stories of white supremacy
This week, check out at least 3 of the resources below and let the prompt guide your takeaways.
A borrowed definition of White Supremacy: “a historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations and peoples of color by white peoples and nations of the European continent; for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system of wealth, power and privilege.”
Thinking/writing prompts:
- As you’re going through the resources, actively consider and name the stories, ways of being and beliefs that you see as supporting or upholding White Supremacy.
- Bring awareness to how these stories and beliefs show up in your everyday life, in your work and your communities.
- Come to our call with at least 3 examples of stories, beliefs or ways of being that uphold this specific oppression.
TW: racial violence + abuse ::
White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun (PDF)
Watch the documentary “13th” on Netflix if you have access to it!
10 Insidious Ways White Supremacy Shows Up in Our Everyday Lives by Kali Holloway (Article)
Systemic Racism: Australia’s great white silence by Jonathan Sri (Video)
Brown Eyed/Blue Eyed Exercise with Jane Elliot (Video) // This is a long one – watch however much you want!
Poem about My Rights by June Jordan (Poem)
Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy by Andrea Smith
Toni Morrison Takes White Supremacy To Task (Video)
Angela Davis on Violence and Revolution (Video)
session four
the stories of patriarchy/gender binaries
This week, check out at least 3 of the resources below and let the prompt guide your takeaways.
Thinking/writing prompts:
- As you’re going through the resources, actively consider and name the stories, ways of being and beliefs that you see as supporting or upholding Patriarchy.
- Bring awareness to how these stories and beliefs show up in your everyday life, in your work and your communities.
- Come to our call with at least 3 examples of stories, beliefs or ways of being that uphold this specific oppression.
Patriarchy and How It Shows Up for Everyone by Shannon Ridgway (Article)
Ten Responses to the Phrase ‘Man Up by Guante (Video)
Transmisogyny 101: What It Is and What Can We Do About It by Laura Kacere (Article)
Patriarchy and Privilege by Chip Smith (PDF)
Clenched Fist: Toxic Masculinity Always Equals Violence by X-tian Whitfield (Article)
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks (This is the whole book – browse as you please.)
Misogynoir: where racism and sexism meet by Eliza Anyangwe (Article)
Shrinking Women by Lily Myers (Video/Poem)
7 Reasons Why Patriarchy Is Bad (and Feminism is Good) for Men by Philippe Leonard Fradet (Article)
Check out the #WhyINeedFeminism hashtag on Twitter and Instagram
session five
the stories of capitalism/classism
This week, check out at least 3 of the resources below and let the prompt guide your takeaways.
Thinking/writing prompts:
- As you’re going through the resources, actively consider and name the stories, ways of being and beliefs that you see as supporting or upholding Capitalism and Classism.
- Bring awareness to how these stories and beliefs show up in your everyday life, in your work and your communities.
- Come to our call with at least 3 examples of stories, beliefs or ways of being that uphold this specific oppression.
“You Do Not Exist To Be Used”: Dismantling Ideas of Productivity in Life Purpose by Gillian Giles (Article)
Cracking the Codes – Dissonance by Jelal Huyler (Video)
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference by Audre Lorde (Book Chapter)
Feminism and Class Power by bell hooks (Book Chapter)
Wealth = Class Privilege (Book Chapter)
The Invisibility of Upper Class Privilege by Class Acts (PDF)
The Oppression of Classism by Harvey Jackins (PDF)
Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey (Video)
The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability by Sunny Taylor (PDF)
Private prisons: How US corporations make money out of locking you up (Video)
session six
open space for integration
This week we’re making space for some integration. We’ll be sharing some prompts in your FB group and we ask that you go back and check out any resources from previous weeks that you haven’t looked into yet.
session seven
radical entrepreneurship
Watch the video below and check out of few of the extra resources from Turtle Tank. Also engage with a couple of the reflection questions!
SAMIA ABOU-SAMRA (left)
Samia is an artist and entrepreneur. Samia has worked as a strategic consultant for radical entrepreneurs over the last 5 years. Samia is the founder of Whale Wonder (previously known as the co-founded Baladé Black) the enterprise currently funding the Turtle Tank project.
IJE UDE (right)
Ije is a coach and facilitator. She has worked with radical entrepreneurs for the last 10 years. Ije is also a wellness consultant for social justice organizations.
More from Turtle Tank (turtletank.co/):
An Alternative Approach to Starting and Growing a Radical Enterprise (Article)
Radical Visionaries need sustained economic power / we need to be #RadicalEntrepreneurs (Article)
How to Be the Right Kind of Productive (Video)
PURPOSE: the key to radical economic empowerment (Video)
What to do now as things fall apart? What we love, more fiercely and strategically. (Article)
RADICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: a wholistic form of activism (Video)
Reflection/Writing Prompts:
- What are the values you wish to integrate and have reflected in your work?
- What’s your vision for your work/biz/art/contribution? What desires, curiosities or dreams do you have?
- What’s your relationship with creativity? Do you feel you have access to creativity within activism/entrepreneurship contexts? Why or why not?
- How does/could collaboration show up more in your work?
- What does a healthy/sustainable relationship with productivity look like for you?
session eight
Mini Mastermind
There are no resources for this week – just a prompt to continue to practice following your desires AND come to our call with something specific (a question, challenge, product) that you’d like support or feedback on.
session nine
Marketing, Messaging + Boundaries (Legal + Personal)
This week will be much like the week before – mini mastermind style and led by your desires for what you wish to chat about or get a deeper understanding of. The resources this week are a bit of a mashup of pieces from others in the online entrepreneurship and/or coaching world that are making connections between justice, healing and business.
I also encourage you to go back over some of the pieces that resonated most with you over the past 8 weeks and come to our call with an intention for what you’d like to takeaway, contribute, understand, etc!
More on Cate: Dr Cate Cole is a lawyer, mediator, mother, wife, shaman and entrepreneur. To find out more about her and her work, visit: Sister in Law (where she offers free and low cost legal resources) or drcatecole.com.
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The link between our buying habits and our vote by Kelly Diels
Connect with Sophie Macklin, an anti-capitalist money coach who’s doing a series of 100 30min 1:1 conversations.
Does the health & wellness community really care about health & wellness? by Melissa Toler
I hate your brand. by Kaila Prins
Visual Storytelling Case Study #4: The Flat Lay by Amy Walsh (in which Amy dissects the messages we tell through the visuals we share)
session ten
closing, visioning + next steps
It’s our last week! Below is a little collection of some visionary work being done in our world (that’s specifically connecting our inner world to our outer experience). This week is all about envisioning new futures for our self, our work and our communities. Check a few of these to get you in the mood to dream, create, build, etc:
The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice (article)
Love as The Practice of Freedom by bell hooks (book chapter)
Restorative Justice: Why Do We Need it? (video)
On Collaboration: Starting With Each Other by Mia Mingus (article)
Revolutionary Mothering with Alexis Pauline Gumbs (video)
The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran (article)
Transformative Justice Resources (article)
