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I believe that teaching is an art. At its best, a sacred art, a sacred responsibility. Audre Lorde offers “I know teaching is a survival…
The work is not over. Just beginning!

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As organizers, our challenge is to identify the nature of our raw opposition and build/create within the space between oppression and freedom. We are charged with entering the space of raw opposition with clarity, precision, and analysis, passion, energy, and generosity. In Black tradition, this is known as the “Cool.” Think Miles Davis. We are challenged to develop shared strategy and principles. Power-sharing, confronting privilege, and building trust are central to this work. We are challenged to willingly participate in ongoing critique of our methodologies and outcomes—making adaptations where necessary and continuing to build upon our strengths. We are also challenged to “reproduce” a future generation of organizers across racial, gender, sexual-orientation, class, physical/mental abilities, geographic location, age, cultural, and political boundaries. We are challenged to replace ourselves—share leadership in a responsible way, making space for “new” voices while integrating the knowledge and experience of the past. Yet, replication is complex because political, economic, and social contexts constantly shift and we want more than to simply mint newer versions of ourselves. We are challenged to draw upon collective abundance. Acting from a place of abundance allows us to challenge scarcity. Collective abundance produces flexibility, creative problem-solving, and courage. I am reflecting here on the ways that the Black tradition models a practice of abundance. Without access to and control of resources, we have managed to pay rent, feed our families, send our children to college, and create hip hop. We are challenged to utilize our agency in the service of our shared goals and charged with a demand for constant creativity, risk-taking, and self-determination. Agency is as empowering as it is messy. It helps us challenge the “cops in our head” or the complex ways we internalize power structures in our daily lives. Additionally, we are challenged to foster a healthy culture of accountability and repair. Understanding that contradictions are integral to any process of change, we are challenged to construct a dialectical analysis. We are challenged to be fluid in our work, transparent about our mistakes, seek non-punitive methods of repair for the harms we both cause and survive, and willingly struggle to transform. This is not the work of a selective “we.” It is work that must be done by everyone. To willingly and actively take on the challenges above, places one in this working group. This is work that demands a deep commitment to foment transformative revolutionary change within our individual selves and among our families, friends, communities, organizations, coalitions, and allies.
Kai Barrow
We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality…an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness’ domain. Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see the future beyond the quagmire of the present. The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalizing rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of the moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds … Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world.
In memory of José Esteban Muñoz, from his book, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (via nyupress)
As a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.
Toni Cade Bambara.
For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding, trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people, all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations; Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now rise and take control.
Margaret Walker, “For My People” from This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. Copyright © 1989 by Margaret Walker. Reprinted by permission of University of Georgia Press.
Source: Poetry (November 1937).
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“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
Freire, P. (1993). Pedagogy of the oppressed (Rev. ed.). New York: Continuum,1970. (via justmaybecome)
Struggling myself don’t mean a whole lot I come to realize That teaching others to stand up and fight is the only way my struggle survives.
Ella’s Song is an a cappella piece written by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon and performed by the famous heritage group called Sweet Honey in the Rock.
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I sensed the schools were hiding something, drugging us with false morality so that we would not see, so that we did not ask...Schools did not reveal truths, they concealed them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World and Me.
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. [I]t comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future...We must dare to invent the future.
Thomas Sankara
The time has come for us to reimagine everything. We have to reimagine work and go away from labor. We have to reimagine revolution and get beyond protest. We have to think not only about change in our institutions, but changes in ourselves. We are at the stage where the people in charge of the government and industry are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It’s up to us to reimagine the alternatives and not just protest against them and expect them to do better.
Grace Lee Boggs, http://reimaginerpe.org/movement-building

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I have always thought what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership among other people. Every time I see a young person who has come through the system to a stage where he could profit from the system and identify with it, but who identifies more with the struggle of black people who have not had his chance, every time I find such a person I take new hope. I feel a new life as a result of it.
(c) Ella Baker, Thoughts on Community Leadership.
“There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I’m very much afraid of this 'Foundation Complex.' We're getting praise from places that worry me." - Ella Baker, June 1963 "I want us all to be real creative about our tactics and strategies to dismantle the empire." - Joo-Hyun Kang, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded Conference, 2004
JustMaybeCo. is currently rethinking our for-profit/non-profit status. Our first priority continues to remain the work of creating quality education for all. Tax status has always been secondary. Nonetheless, long-term sustainability is a necessity. Reading much more about the work INCITE! has brought into the world (from the movement to end violence against women of color and their communities) on the non-profit industrial complex. At this point, we are solidly headed toward non-profit status for the foreseeable future. Educating ourselves on the ways in which elite philanthropy and liberal foundations have stifled social change projects is something we see as a necessary due diligence as we move forward.
Organizers, Activists and Artists from Ferguson, and the Dream Defenders Visit Palestine—A Story in Photos and Tweets
From Ferguson to Palestine, global fights for liberation and justice.
Solidarity Demonstration in Nazareth : Ferguson to Palestine from Dream Defenders on Vimeo.
This teaching guide is meant to speak toward our rights as Americans to take on the full responsibilities of democracy, referring to our civic participation in the creation and maintenance of systems of accountability in search of our collective safety. Lamenting the influences of systemic racism, police militarization, and the lack of political and judicial accountability, we recognize our role as educators to be able to teach the necessity to contribute to the intentioned dialogue through which our democracy will evolve. Focusing on the practical steps through which we voice and participate in this process, we make room for the full recognition of our humanity and the enactment of our power as societal change agents.
This is just a sample curriculum project of JustMaybeCo. This was put together over a weekend. However, in practice, JustMaybeCo. looks to collaboratively build these packages through intentional discourse with youth and community. For example, sample letters, serving as Models would be created through partnership with local community groups. Further Connections would be grown through participatory dialogue with youth. Resources would be analyzed and adapted for accessibility and ease of understanding. Philadelphia residents active in the outpouring after the verdict would be interviewed and Voices intertwined. Local teachers would add reflections on implementation Strategies. In a full JustMaybeCo. learning experience, we would seek to activate all these varied lenses and perspectives within this project to bring educators an active, immersive learning experience well-prepared to drive student learning outcomes.

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PRESENTE Toni Cade Bambara March 25, 1939 - December 9, 1995. Remembering and Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Black Feminist Writer, Teacher, Organizer, Mother, Filmmaker, Cultural Worker Extraordinaire on the 74th Anniversary of her birth.
(Toni and Aishah Shahidah Simmons...