As a teenager, I played basket ball for years. Every one told me to so cause I have always been tall (and most probably because I am Black, too…sigh).
I loved it though. Working in teams, building solidarity.
But there was this one thing I simply couldn’t do. And that one thing drove my coach CUCU.
I simply couldn’t yell for the ball.
The truth is, I’ve never been the yelling type. Who yells??!
Anyways, those days, I feel heartbroken when the most sensitive of us are drawn out of organizing spaces because they’re just not the yelling type.
We need absolutely every. body. every one of us.
That includes you, remind my words right now.
So here are some tactics I’ve written down over time on my notes. I’ve seen all of those roles embodied BEAUTIFULLY. And the best part in all of that? You get to do it YOUR WAY.
Finally, I just want to let you know that the best way to belong is to be the brightest version of you. Once I figured out what my gifts were, it was so much easier for me to stop and try yelling. I am not the activist type, I am not the best first front, I’ll be the one organizing support on the backend, however !
In Liberation practice field, we start with The Social Change Ecosystem Franework by DEEPA IYER so that YOU can figure out your role in the revolution ! JOIN US ! WE START TOMORRROWWWWWWWWWW !!!
Ok, here we go:
⚡️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
🌚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
🎨 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
🌀 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!
🐚 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 (what! would! a! bad! girl! do???!)
WHAT’S YOUR ROLE IN THE LIBERATION?
In Liberation practice field, we start with The Social Change Ecosystem Franework by DEEPA IYER so that YOU can figure out your role in the revolution !