here are some zines and other resources you can use for your own projects, ideas, and brainstorms
seed publications
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Somos Semillas: In Introduction to seed project
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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Practices
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What Color is your heart today? Worksheet
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Multi-Sensory Grounding Technique
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Trauma-Informed Facilitation Presentation by Candy Alexandra González.
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Facilitación basada en información sobre el trauma
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books and inspiration
Emergent Strategy
By Adrienne Marie Brown
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.
Some Social Practice
By Ellen Mueller
This book started as a compilation of a series of zines created to introduce students to the field of social practice. This book expands and adds to each of these zines while compiling all of the history examples into a single timeline for easy reference.
How Racism Takes Place
By George Lipsitz
White identity in the United States is place bound, asserts George Lipsitz in How Racism Takes Place. An influential scholar in American and racial studies, Lipsitz contends that racism persists because a network of practices skew opportunities and life chances along racial lines. That is, these practices assign people of different races to different spaces and therefore allow grossly unequal access to education, employment, transportation, and shelter.
Beautiful Trouble
by Andrew Boyd
Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.
Beautiful Rising
Edited by Juman Abujbara, Andrew Boyd, Dave Mitchell and Marcel Taminato
In the struggle for freedom and justice, organizers and activists have often turned to art, creativity, and humor. In this follow-up to the bestselling Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, Beautiful Risingshowcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South.
Education For Socially Engaged Art
by Pablo Helguera
Education for Socially Engaged Art is the first “Materials and Techniques” book for the emerging field of social practice. Written with a pragmatic, hands-on approach for university-level readers and those interested in real-life application of the theories and ideas around socially engaged art.