4 Unconventional Communications Strategies
How do you boost engagement, build reciprocity and understand how the stories of relationships affect the stories told in communications and narrative strategy work? Read on…
Art Really Is Activism
In this interview between Mx Lucinda Pepper and queer Black Trans artist Boo McCaleb, learn about his journey to becoming a video artist and public art consultant who uses his art to express his activism.
Liberation is an Active Practice
In this interview between Mx Lucinda Pepper and Alfred Walking Bull, you'll read about Alfred's approach to liberation and their work creating culture based on liberatory principles.
Rebuilding while Dismantling: Therapy Through an Abolition Framework
In this interview with Autumn McDonald, you’ll read about how she uses abolition frameworks to engage her therapy clients in claiming their wholeness and rebuilding a steady foundation that centers connection.
Artists Move the Hearts & Minds of Culture
In this interview with Spirit Paris McIntyre, you’ll read about how their work and world-building rests on a steady foundation of values and collaboration.
Cyclical Work…Healing through Helping Others
In this interview with SJ Janjua, founder and CEO of Empowered for Equity Consulting, you’ll read about how his work creates the new and necessary worlds we all need.
What Microaggressions & Critical Self-Talk Have In Common
Use this tool to interrupt violent language that happens through microaggressions and overly critical self-talk.
Playing to Interrupt Violence & Burnout
Musings on how practicing play can help us interrupt being burned-out adults.
Ripples
a poem for collective mobilization and more healing energy in our world.
Lists Existing Across Time
What books are on your 20-year old reading list?
Seeds of Self-Belonging
The seeds of my self-belonging were planted in me when I was very young: I remember receiving the message that I belonged in this world and to this universe.
My maternal granny had a dark-wood upright piano in her dining room. I longed to learn how to play. When the aunts, granny, my mom and other women were gathered, gossiping around the kitchen table…
A Letter to Myself as a Young Writer
April 10 is Encourage A Young Writer Day. Read this letter of encouragement I wrote to my young writer self.
Measuring Hopes
“As I set out on the path of doing business I tucked some delicious hopes into my pockets. Throughout the year, I would pull them out, turn them over, and examine them closely to see if some aspect of them was coming to fruition. At the end of summer, there were a couple of hopes I let go of as I was gently but firmly reminded that the timing of things is very much not in my control.* I’ve still got a couple of last year’s loved hopes tucked away, and I’m compiling new ones to daydream about this year.
Of course, it is scary to articulate some of the hopes I’m carrying for 2023. I have decided to not let fear stop me…”
Composting The Gender Binary
Let’s compost the gender binary! In this post I express my gratitude for Trans/GNC folks who are doing excellent work being their joyful selves in the world and changing minds as they go. I also critique a recent article about using gender-neutral pronouns and explain how it could have been so much better written.