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"Every empire knows that before you build law, you build myth."

In this seminal paper, the BLIS Collective argues that social transformation requires both narrative infrastructure and solidarity infrastructure.

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#NarrativePower #Solidarity #SocialChange
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November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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“Because D.C. is such a powerful and symbolic center of national protest, an attempt to silence D.C. is an attempt to silence all of us.”
-- political strategists @anatosaurus.bsky.social and Michael Podhorzer

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#WashingtonDC
#Protest
#Politics
August 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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In @defineamerican.bsky.social, activist @aijenpoo.bsky.social with host @joseiswriting.bsky.social speak to how immigrants are--and have always been--the building blocks of this country.

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#Immigration #Activism #SocialJustice
Could America Survive Without Immigrant Nannies and Caregivers? With Ai-jen Poo
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July 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Terrance Pitts (Proteus Fund) and Rachele Tardi
(@rwjf.bsky.social) explore how transformative solidarity means building deep, long-term relationships across movements.

Read here:
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#Solidarity #Philanthropy #Liberation
Why Now is the Time to Fund Solidarity
Funders can strengthen movements and create lasting change by facilitating relationships and building trust among social justice advocates.
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July 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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“Medicaid is one of the most powerful tools for breaking down access barriers.”

As Megan Kerns reports in @npquarterly.bsky.social, Trump’s bill slashes key supports youth rely on for care, especially in under-resourced schools.

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#MentalHealth #Youth #Medicaid
How Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Hurts Youth Mental Health - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Trump’s spending and tax legislation will hurt youth mental health. A new report shows how young people desperately need services.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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"'Take Good Care' speaks to our best selves… rooted in interdependence, abundance, mutual recognition, and belonging."

In this essay, @narrativepower.bsky.social advocates for a new framework rooted in collective care.

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#NarrativePower #CollectiveCare #Storytelling
Making the Bigger We: Individual Fictions & Shared Realities in Covid-Era America
Every effective movement has invited people to imagine a bigger “we” beyond their personal interests. Today, we are faced with a challenge…
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July 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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In an episode of Fierce Casemaking with Dr. Tiffany Manuel, disability activist Rebecca Cokley discusses what it takes to create a world that accommodates all of us.

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#DisabilityJustice #Activism #CareWork
July 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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“The existence of homelessness in a society is not some intractable, unsolvable problem. It is simply a reflection of what the values of that society are.” --Editor-in-chief @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social; @currentaffairs.bsky.social

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#HousingIsAHumanRight #EndHomelessness
Homelessness Is An Entirely Solvable Problem
Whether we let people have houses is a choice we make. But those who refuse to support guaranteed housing can’t complain when people end up living on the streets.
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July 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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An essential read by writer and advocate @deepaiyer.bsky.social, who highlights that social change requires an intersection of gifts, skills, and roles.

Read here: deepaiyer.substack.com/p/all-of-us

#SocialJustice #Strategy #Change
July 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Marisol Bello, executive director of the Housing Narrative Lab, highlights the power of storytelling in shifting our understanding of homelessness, and how each of us can play a role in realizing housing for all.

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#Housing #Justice
July 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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"Could we, should we, imagine a meritocracy of the common good?”

In Los Angeles Review of Books, Professor Paul J. D’Ambrosio explores--what might it look like to decenter individualism and reimagine collective well-being?

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#SocialGood #Collective #Meritocracy
My Successes (and Failures) Are All Mine? | Los Angeles Review of Books
“The Tyranny of Merit” might recast the way you view everything from essential workers to choice, luck, and smuggery.
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July 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Disability justice says we all deserve care without exception. From the Capitol Crawl in 1990 to Medicaid protests today, the demand remains the same: dignity, access, and life.

#DisabilityJustice #MedicaidMatters #Justice

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July 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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In TIME, journalist and activist Jose Antonio Vargas reminds us that being American is not about "who you are," but "what you are about"—how you live, contribute to, and fight for a country that excludes no one.

Read the full piece here: bit.ly/45RJPNX

#July4th #ImmigrantRights #Freedom
What to the Immigrant is the 4th of July?
"When you are an undocumented immigrant, celebrating the Fourth of July is to resist being defined by fear and panic."
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July 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Stephen Hampton of the Cherokee Nation reminds us: America was built on land theft, slavery, and settler violence.

This July 4, we must confront that truth - and build new structures where freedom includes us all.

Essay: bit.ly/3Itixn9

#July4 #MercilessIndianSavages
Revelations about the Revolution: The Freedom to Steal Land from “Merciless Indian savages” was Key to the Declaration of Independence
Guest Opinion. “Rockin’ and a rollin’, splishin’ and a splashin’, over the horizon, what can it be – a free country.” This was the little tune I learned from Schoolhouse Rock when I was a kid watching...
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July 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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This July 4th, Frederick Douglass urges us to reckon with the violences of our past, as essential to creating a just future.

Watch actor James Earl Jones brings Douglass’s speech to life here:
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#FourthofJuly #WeThePeople #SocialJustice
July 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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"Social movements create paths to civic action, the beating heart of democracy.” -- Julia Roig and Rinku Sen in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

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#SocialJustice #Activism
In Defense of Noisy, Disruptive Movements
Efforts to pursue common ground with MAGA members aim to muzzle advocates for our most vulnerable. Yet history is filled with illustrations of how direct action is essential to social change.
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July 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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"A message that nobody hears cannot persuade them."

In Reverbal Communications, political strategist Anat Shenker-Osorio breaks down how effective language is necessary to build cohesive movements.

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#NarrativePower #Democracy #SocialJustice
July 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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On Twiggs & Jenkins, cultural strategist Yosi Sergant shares how art, storytelling, and collective visioning can help us imagine—and build—a better world, by first touching hearts.

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#Art #Culture #Politics
June 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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NYC’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and Comptroller Brad Lander appeared on The Late Show to share their vision--to build a politics rooted in collaboration, principle, and the power of organized people over organized money.

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#ZohranMamdani #TheLateShow
Zohran Mamdani, Brad Lander Promote 'Politics of the Future' on 'Colbert'
Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander appeared on 'The Late Show' to discuss their campaigns and the "politics of the future."
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June 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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“Only 1 in 6 women on probation or parole can access abortion care at any stage of their pregnancy without needing permission to cross state lines.”
- Wendy Sawyer, Research Director at the Prison Policy Initiative

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Two years after the end of Roe v. Wade, most women on probation and parole have to ask permission to travel for abortion care
Since the 2022 Dobbs decision, 21 states have restricted abortions earlier than the Roe v. Wade standard. Now, more of the 800,000 women on probation ...
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June 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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“Prejudice, anger, and discrimination are easier points of entry than feeling the woundedness that we all feel — that gender norms are often prioritized more than our own reality.” - Comedian and poet Alok Vaid-Menon

What would it mean to live in a world that disrupts rigid categories?
transphobia is often misdirected frustration with the gender binary via The News Movement | ALOK Vaid-Menon
transphobia is often misdirected frustration with the gender binary via The News Movement ________________________ Tour Dates: (https://lnkd.in/eTSZvda7)    June 25: Kansas City June 26: Pittsburgh Ju...
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June 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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"Public" space for whom?

A striking visual study by BYU public health professor Robbie Chaney, and co-authors Alyssa Baer and Ida Tovar, reveals the gendered realities of walking home at night.

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Gender-Based Heat Map Images of Campus Walking Settings: A Reflection of Lived Experience | Violence and Gender
Fear of crime can influence our view of and experience with the world around us. This can be problematic for individuals seeking physical activity, including from walk commuting. Prior work shows fear...
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June 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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“People will not choose justice if injustice continues to feel better.”

This Juneteenth, read this powerful piece by Marc Dones.

If we want transformation, we have to reimagine what comfort looks like — and who gets to have it.

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How the Suburbs Broke America: A Systems Perspective
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June 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM