In the table below you will find a completely inconclusive list of readable media that have shaped my practice as a facilitator and community care organizer. I’ve focused here more on readings that are more specific to my facilitation and community care practice rather than broader resistance histories or theoretical/philosophical inputs that inform my worldview, although those foundational and analytical texts are definitely important. Will do my best to keep it updated as new inputs inform me!
The below photos are from the temporary community library we created together during Facilitating Dialgoue in Times of Rupture 3-day facilitation training that I co-organized with Alice Priori (CitizensLab e.V.) and Maksim Smekhov (Civil Society Forum e.V.) in 2025. You can also check out the list of books we have at the aequa Library for inspiration! I haven’t read them all but they were all either selected or donated by sound people. :)
Name | Author | Tags | link |
|---|---|---|---|
adrienne maree brown | facilitationcollective organizingconflicttransformative justice | ||
adrienne maree brown | facilitationcollective organizingcommunity organizingtransformative justice | ||
carla Bergmann & Nick Montgomery | collective organizingtransformative justicecommunity organizinganarchism | ||
meendadchi | interpersonal communicationconflictharmtransformative justice | ||
Charlene A. Carruthers | collective organizingradical organizing historiesanti-racism | ||
The Feminist Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles | community spacescollective organizingpopular education | ||
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira | decolonial futuresdegrowthpedagogypopular education | ||
Community output of research by Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta, supported by Sarj Lynch; zine editors Char Hilgers and Susanna Li. (Write me if you want a printable version of this rather than screen-readable) | collective organizingnightlifemusicsex work | ||
Priya Parker | facilitationinterpersonal communication | ||
Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba | collective organizingcommunity organizingradical organizing historiesdecolonial futurestransformative justice | ||
Staci Haines | somaticsradical organizing historiestransformative justicecollective organizing | ||
Emma Dabiri | anti-racism | ||
Sarah Schulman | conflicttransformative justice | ||
Mariame Kaba & Shira Hassan | transformative justiceconflictharmabuse | ||
Creative Interventions Collective | transformative justicefacilitationcommunity accountabilityconflictharmabuse | ||
Robin Wall Kimmerer | indigenietyinterbingecologydecolonial futures | ||
Dead Spade | mutual aidanarchismcommunity organizing |