Better Together: care-based strategies for tending to conflict and harm in our movements and communities

After years of watching the far-right organize and gain power in Europe and beyond, we have to continue to ask ourselves: how can those of us standing against authoritarianism in all its forms stick together against the systems that harm us all, even when we hurt each other? Especially in times of great repression, our movement’s resources, bodies and tempers tend to be stretched paper-thin. This often means that we not only end up harming each other more than we might in less repressive times, but also that our reactions to those harms might jump the quickest and often the most severe consequence, rather than the strategic or right-sized response.

On the long-term scale of organizing, if we are fighting for other worlds and ways of being in relation with other people and planet that we think are possible, how might we practice these worlds already within the contexts in which we are organizing?

In this workshop we’ll explore definitions of harm and its consequences in the context of movement and cultural organizing, as well as practical frameworks and tactics for dealing with different levels of conflict and harm in ways that strive not to reproduce the very violences we are fighting against.

This workshop is a politicized space, rooted in my own lineages and commitments. The space is is intended for folks who broadly identify with these ethics.

For everyone's safety,  please do not join if you are sick.