Bridging the gap between everyday communications work and longterm narrative strategy can be challenging. We build skilled, well-resourced narrative power centers, starting in social movement spaces, as close to community leaders as possible, to run meaningful narrative interventions. Working groups are the building blocks of our narrative organizing work.
Disability justice and health equity are key themes across our work. We collaborate with Long Covid Justice and reproductive justice coalitions. Our organizing department gathers organizations and coalitions focused on health equity and builds their capacity to tackle harmful narratives, such as "deservingness" and "individualism." We are also working towards a museum exhibition on doulas and their critical role for maternal health.
Rural communities have often been excluded from the conversation on multiracial democracy building. In collaboration with the 22nd Century Initiative, we are building power with rural democracy organizers nationwide, whose work includes cultural strategy and community organizing. As frontline defenders against the rise of authoritarian populism, rural democracy organizers are critical to our long-term goal of building a true, multiracial democracy.
Mass migration due to climate catastrophes is a growing global concern. Currently, we have partnered with Organizing Resilience to bring narrative organizing into disaster relief efforts. We also collaborate with climate change organizations to create a narrative strategy that resists criminalizing immigrants and further securitizing our shared natural resources.
