(Spoiler Alert: It depends.) Are posts, emails and articles about AI flooding your devices? Me too. I’m not opposed to AI; let’s say I’m cautiously optimistic. AI is a lot like social media and fossil fuels. All three are technologies
As canvassing season heats up again, I’ve been thinking about how to keep canvassers safe. From traffic. From the heat. From dogs. Also from residents and police officers who haven’t read the memo that canvassing is first Amendment protected free
A few weeks ago, my co-conspirators and I facilitated our quarterly workshop called “Disrupting White Supremacy Culture in Nonprofits.” It’s based on the Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture in Organizations, developed by Tema Okun. Some of the comments we hear
Dear Hollywood, I’m bored. That’s not why. I love murder tv. Law and Order (all of them). CSI. Body of Proof. While there are thousands of binge-watching possibilities, most of them fall into the same tired, old formulas that reinforce
“Yes, it’s good, but sometimes politicians will do that and think they’ve solved racism.” – My mom, circa 1979 Once, when I was about 9, my family was driving through a city that renamed one of its major thoroughfares after
“I like being weird. People remember you that way. They say ‘Hey, I remember you. You’re the weird one.’” -Sylvia Gordon (aka my mom) circa 1980 You know how there’s one kid in every school that no one likes and
Big news! Starting this month, Organizing to Win’s (OTW) mission expands to include white supremacy disruption consulting and organizing strategy coaching. If you read the Organizing to Win newsletter regularly (thank you!), you may have noticed an emphasis on what
Originally published in December 2021 Remember all those memes from the end of 2020? When we thought “Whew. 2020 is done. Come on 2021!” And we thought it would be all over, like a bad dream. As it turns out,
Originally published in November 2021 Earlier this year, I started to think about what I had done in past in campaigns and projects that perpetuated, rather than disrupted, white supremacy, even if I didn’t know it at the time. Most
We have so much more work to do to rid ourselves of this system of white supremacy.
