Organizing
This section contains resources on organizing, mutual aid, and self care (an essential part of any organizing movement!).
ORGANIZING
36 Reasons Why QTPOC-Only Spaces are Very Necessary by Gabby
6 Reasons Why We Need Safe Spaces by Sian Ferguson
8 Steps Toward Building Indispensability (Instead of Disposability) Culture by Kai Cheng Thom
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex by Indigenous Action Media
Activism in America Handout by I'm with Activism (to help plan what you can do)
Anti-Racist Neighborhood Watch Quick Start Manual and Resource Packet by the Antifacist Workers Collective
Case Studies on religion and social movements (like Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, the rise of Donald Trump) from the Harvard Divinity School
Healing from Marginalization Through Love and Justice workshop by Everyday Feminism (free webinar)
Healing from Toxic Whiteness workshop by Everyday Feminism (free webinar)
How to Interact with the Media (from Washington Peace Center)
Know Your (Lack of a) Role: Honoring Healing Spaces as an Ally by Kel Kray
Know Your Rights in Case of Immigration/Police Raid by INCITE!
#MuslimBan Resource Guide (in multiple languages) by the Ajam Media Collective
Native American Activism: 1960s to Present by the Zinn Education Project
OurStates - Website with updates on Trump's policy implementation and resistence tools
Politics based on justice, diplomacy based on love: What indigenous diplomatic traditions can teach us by Leanne Simpson
Popular Education Workshop by INCITE! (free download)
Resistance Manual - Website with policy information on Trump agenda
Sample Non-Violent Training Agenda (from the Rant Collective)
Social Media Prep for Actions (from Washington Peace Center)
Social Media Resources for Activists (from Washington Peace Center)
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide by the Southern Poverty Law Center
MUTUAL AID
What is Mutual Aid? Video
Mutual Aid Toolbox by the Big Door Brigade (models and tools to start projects)
Introduction from The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by INCITE
Beyond the Non-profit Industrial Complex by INCITE
8 Black Panther Party Programs That Were More Empowering Than Federal Government Programs by Nick Chiles
Mutual Aid for Incarcerated People Is More Than Just Bail Funds by Reina Sultan
From the Bottom Up: Strategies and Practices from Membership-Based Organizations study by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project
SELF CARE
Subversive Self-Care: Centering Black Women’s Wellness by Shanesha Brooks-Tatum
Love as Political Resistance: Lessons from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler by adrienne maree brown
Radical Self-Love Means Radical Self-Care by Julie Feng
Love as the Practice of Freedom (from “Outlaw Culture”) by bell hooks
On Self Recovery (from “Talking Back: thinking feminist, thinking black”) by bell hooks
Self-Care For People of Color After Psychological Trauma by Jasmine
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism by Audre Lorde (slightly blurry) or here (webpage, not pdf)
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde
Ode to Shea Butter, a poem by Angel Nafis
A short instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy by Andie Nordgren
The Radical Politics of Self Love and Self Care by SooJin Pate
Twerking as a Radical Act of Healing, a poem by Danez Smith
Self-Care and Social Justice Work by Quita Tinsley
The Activists Speak: On Cultivating a Radical, Revolutionary Self Love by Chelcee and Maia Williams