Tactics for Organizing Toward Care, Love, & Liberation

direct action, somatic, creative & cultural, relational, education, political, spiritual tactics

There are many many ways to organize towards more life, more aliveness and more equity. You can’t do it all. All you have to do is show up the best way you know how.

DIRECT ACTION & DISRUPTION

• NO CAUSE I SAID SO

• Protests, walkouts, blockades, sit-ins

• Refusal (of labor, of compliance, of silence, of heterocisnormativity!!!)

• Strikes (labor, rent, sECS, digital platforms)

• Civil disobedience as moral stance

• MEDIOCRITY AS SPORT AT WORK

CREATIVE & CULTURAL TACTICS

• Art as protest, ritual, or collective memory

• Poetry and performance that cracks open the heart & remind us that this shit is whack and we deserve better

• Dance, song, or storytelling as methods of organizing

• Zines, murals, radio, memes, and alt media

• Cultural refusal: reclaiming names, language, body sovereignty

• grief as portal

• MAKING SHITTY ART JUST BECAUSE

SOMATIC & HEALING STRATEGIES

• REALISING YOU’RE THE ISSUE

• Embodied practice (breath, grounding, movement) to metabolize trauma

• Co-regulation in community as political infrastructure

• Rest as resistance and nervous system repair

• Healing justice circles & community-based care /accountability pods

• Inner child + ancestor healing to interrupt generational cycles

RELATIONAL PRACTICES

• Intentional relationship-building rooted in trust

• Conflict transformation, not avoidance

• Apology and repair as everyday praxis

• NOT SENDING THAT DAMN TEXT, CALL INSTEAD !

• Building “containers” of safety for hard conversations

• Regular check-ins and accountability agreements

• stop giving away youR power!

• decentering the relationships that capitalism banks off of

• also make love pls and spill that energy onto those haters in demos, thanks

• laugh louder than they hate

INFRASTRUCTURE & MUTUAL AID

• Care webs & disability justice-informed access practices

• we leave no fucking body behind

• Housing and food cooperatives

• Community defense and safety teams (non-police alternatives)

• Resource redistribution (land, wealth, time, knowledge), nobody gives a fuck bout your land acknowledgment, give back!

• Organizing shared childcare or eldercare

EDUCATION & POLITICAL FORMATION

• Study groups, reading circles, and popular education

• Skillshares: somatics, facilitation, harm reduction, security (especially if you go to demos!)

• Political storytelling and testimony as tools for change

• Mapping power and history locally

• Decolonizing knowledge and truth-telling

• share knowledge, care, open scholarships, give for free when you can !

DIGITAL & TECHNOLOGICAL TACTICS

• Online campaigns and toolkits for collective action

• Open-source platforms for organizing and education

• Digital safety practices to protect communities

• Crowdfunding for survival and experimentation

• Podcasts (NO CIS MEN WE GOOD), newsletters, and social media for movement-building

• MORE MEMES PLEASE, MORE GAY MEMES

SPIRITUAL & RITUAL PRACTICE

• stop looking down on spirituality as pathway for liberation

• witches as leaders (preferably lesbians)

• Prayer, altar-making, and collective ritual

• Ancestral remembrance as compass and guide

• Honoring grief together as a path to deeper solidarity

• Seasonal, lunar, or elemental organizing cycles

• Dreamwork, divination, and visioning as strategic tools

• cats over dogs sorry not sorry! cats would never work for the police!

SMALL IS STILL STRATEGY

• 1-on-1 conversations, choosing repair when possible

• surrounding harm doers as much as victims because this binary is just another lie

• Intimate listening circles, taking care of each other

• Sharing meals, supporting the most affected of us

• Writing love letters to the future

• Whispering radical hope where it’s needed

• dropping in despair when it’s needed

• becoming a menace

Sending care,

Stay ungovernable,

Care