DreamStorm: Mapping Our Collective Liberation Commitments: Sun Jan 26

This workshop is for THOSE OF US WHO ARE COMMITTED TO COLLECTIVE LIBERATION and are also neurospicy 

and also badly need to organize all our shit

I came up with this after my first video "Making the movement accessible." I know that so many of us care SO MUCH. and also, sometimes that care + capitalism + our own neurospicy needs characteristics get stuck together and its hard to untangle. 

And then we freeze. This can look like hyperfixing on one social issue, unable to see the bigger picture. This can look like being so overwhelmed with what to and where and how that we drop it all on the floor

So we will be making our own Collective Liberation maps!

On our maps we will slot in 3 - 5 of each:

- Issues (in general) we know enough about to speak about in plain language

- Countries we know enough about to speak about in plain language

- Issues we have heard about but want to and need to learn more

- Countries we have heard about but want to and need to learn more

- What Earth/Environmental issues do I want to learn more/focus on?

- Organizations/ organizers that you trust 

- Organization/ organizers you want to learn more about

- Successful movements in history to study deeply

- Successful local ( where you are physically located) movement to study 

- The needs/movements/demands of your local *digital* communities 

- The needs/movements/demands of your local *physical located* community

- Who am I able to/want to give mutual aid to on a regular basis?

- Who do I want to think about emergent mutual aid to? Think: if you can't give consistently, who comes up for you when you do have it?

- What are you able to boycott?

- What can you not?

- Our favorite qualities about ourselves 

- What do you need people for/what can you not do without others?

- What energizes YOU? Think: skills, care, etc.

- What are YOU good at? 

- What is your lane/niche?

- What digital planforms are you on?

- What changes to digital platforms to you want to make?

- Who affirms your humanity?/ Who are your people?

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Let's prepare with each other and for each other <333

Layout:

We will do introductions; I will provide context for the workshop. 
We will fill out our maps together with space to share out what comes up for us as we go along.

I will send out a few days before:

- Map template 
- Longer descriptions for each map subject 

Safety:

~ Limited to 35 People

~ Must either verify your insta (with your face) or by a person I know

~ Will receive zoom link day of

~ Registration will cut off 2 days before (Nov 30th)

Access:

~ Captions

~ Workshop is 3 hours

~ You will receive recording and resources after

~ Do not share recording or resources 

About Your Facilitator:

Rise is a queer Black disabled genderfluid femmeboi; A visual artist, poet, full spectrum (birth/postpartum/grief & loss/abortion) birthworker, yoga teacher, meditation facilitator, gender affirming and trauma informed care and disability justice educator, access consultant and community care worker. 

Rise is deeply invested in disability justice, access, centering wellness for Black queer folk, trauma education, and rest. Also of course! A lover of doing the most.