This article is part of Illuminate’s Equitable Horizon Blog Series. Find more from this series HERE.IntroductionThe paper is written from the perspectives and experiences of three Black women in the…
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Leadership Alumni Networks Making a Difference
For all justice-loving people who are curious about networks or what leadership program alumni can and are accomplishing by using network strategies, I am happy to share a recently released…
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Imagining Liberation
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create…
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Changing the System by Fire
It takes a villageLast week, I interviewed Phoebe Tickell on imagination activism and the space between having solutions at hand and deploying them in the right way to build a better world.Phoebe…
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Equity May Not Be So Deep, Even If It Isn’t Easy: 10 Things You Can Actually Do Sooner Than Later
I’m wrapping up some work with a network focused on just and sustainable food systems, and based on work we have done and conversation we have had to date on…
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Governance Dilemmas — Boundary Conditions for Navigating Networked Peacebuilding
As actors engaged in peacebuilding and social change, we often find ourselves grappling with complex dynamics while facilitating the establishment of effective governance systems. Three recurring themes, or dilemmas, have…
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Changing the Conversation Around Reproductive Justice
“Reproductive justice” was first coined in 1994 by the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice and defined in 1997 by Sister Song (a formal outgrowth of that group) as “the human…
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Bending the Arc Toward Racial Justice
PART 1: Juicy Questions about Building Capacity for Racial JusticeIf you’re a regular reader or part of Interaction Institute for Social Change’s network, you’ll know that we build collaborative capacity…
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Creative Freedom for True Equity
Equity is often discussed, but rarely understood in a context that speaks to the core challenges of people who are under-represented in race, religion, gender, socio economic status or who…
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Ceremony: Reyoking the Sacred with Our Social Justice Work
“Disability is an invitation to relationship…It’s that opening that creates the whole ecosystem.”– Sophie Strand“Poetry is the language of the apocalypse.”– Bayo Akomolafe1As the newest members of turtle island, two-leggeds…
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