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This week we @EngnRoom published our new strategy, and I wanted to do a quick thread of some resources I found particularly insightful + helpful in shaping my thinking in working on it: https://twitter.com/EngnRoom/status/1290966529731952640
. @ThinkCREA’s primer, ‘All About Power’, by @sribatli. Introduces different types of power - who does what, who gets what, who decides what, who sets the agenda – and how it operates: https://reconference.creaworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/All-About-Power-Srilatha-Batliwala.pdf
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass - a gorgeous combination of memoir, science/nature – and the perfect intersection of scientific knowledge + lived experience, leading with heart *and* head: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465709-braiding-sweetgrass
Iris Young’s book, ‘Justice and the Politics of Difference’ - exploring feminist approaches to justice that acknowledge existing differences in power, not just in resources - ht @FiekeJ https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152622/justice-and-the-politics-of-difference
The ongoing work of the #feministinternet community – which includes one of the best events I’ve ever attended, exploring feminist movement building in a digital age. @jhybe's conception of a 'free radical' stayed with me since then! https://www.genderit.org/editorial/making-feminist-internet-movement-building-digital-age
. @ruha9’s book, ‘Race After Technology’ - for starting from very first principles with an anti-racist approach to understanding and critiquing technology, intersecting with social control + power: https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology
This post by @leilabilling on what feminist leadership looks like during a pandemic – embracing nuance and intersectionality, encouraging reframing, and gave me lots of food for thought on how to best support our team and partners: https://medium.com/@leila_billing/what-does-feminist-leadership-look-like-in-a-pandemic-35b2ee0eb994
A classic - Emergent Strategy, by @adriennemaree – putting social justice work into perspective, making explicit the link between transforming ourselves, our orgs, our societies, our environment: https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html
More books: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin; The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura; Timefulness, by Marcia Bjornerud; Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience by Janet Biehl; The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
