The Real Work, Ep 6: Dreaming Forward

This is it, right here, this is the final episode. And if you’re here right now, and you’ve been choosing to return to this work again and again, I want to say, thank you. Cuz If we want alternative means to responding to harm other than the systems on offer from the state, we are the ones who have to invest time, energy, labor into learning, healing, imagining, practicing, remembering, and organizing to get there. As Black feminist revolutionary writer June Jordan said, “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” Now is the time to generously bring forth our gifts and throw down for our collective liberation. So again, thank you for choosing to be here. Let’s dream forward. Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-6 Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.org June Jordan: JuneJordan.com The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, ed. Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: www.akpress.org/revolutionstartsathome.html Democracy Now!, “Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): ‘We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World’”: www.democracynow.org/2015/10/6/remembering_grace_lee_boggs_1915_2015 Kim Tran: www.KimTranPHD.com Kyra Jones: www.KyraJones.me Adrienne Skye Roberts: TherapyWithAdrienneSkye.com Mia Mingus: www.soiltjp.org & leavingevidence.wordpress.com Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: batjc.wordpress.com For additional resources, including this episode’s ASL video: WeRiseProduction.com/TheRealWork zAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & soundcloud.com/diasporadical Connect with us at [email protected], and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at @WeRiseProduction, & on Twitter at @WeRiseProducers. This project is supported by an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation & the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, and was incubated with initial support from Cal Shakes.