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Justice, Diversity & Inclusion

Strong movements are made up of diverse participants, each bringing their particular talents, perspectives and community connections. For this to happen justice issues need to be engaged with and groups need the skills and culture to be inclusive. You’ll find materials to support that in this topic, as well as stories and perspectives from different communities, identities and struggles.

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Glossaries for Campaign Strategy, Community Organising and Solidarity and Justice

Would you like to gain an understanding of what different terms mean in the world of campaigning and organising?

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Accessibility: Introduction to Thinking about Events and Engagement

Introduction to thinking about accessibility engagement and events, providing a set of principles and key considerations.

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Questioning for Learning, Co-creation and Liberation

Questions can be revolutionary! An exploration of different approaches to questioning for organisers and facilitators.

Making Your Activism Accessible

This guide was developed to support activists in making their spaces, events, meetings and communications more accessible, in order to ensure that everyone is welcome and encouraged to join a movement for justice in whatever way they can!

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Why North-South Intersectionality Matters in Climate Justice: Perspectives of South Asian Australian Youth Climate Activists

What does climate justice actually look like in the Australian climate movement? Recommendations from a report by SAPNA reveal the need for diversity.

Justice, Diversity & Inclusion: Start Here

Find a comprehensive list of resources from The Commons Social Change Library on diversity, inclusion and solidarity in social movements.

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Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline

The first book to bring together a large collection of neurodiverse contributors to talk about events that shaped the movement, and which they themselves were involved with.

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Dealing with Far-Right Interventions in Left-Wing and Progressive Movements

An examination of the growing influence of far-right and conspiracy-driven ideologies, including interventions in left-wing and progressive movements. The article outlines eight ways activists and organisers can respond.

Digital Accessibility: Making Online Spaces Accessible

Tips, notes and presentation slides from a session at the FWD + Organise 2021 Conference about how to make online spaces more accessible.

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Accessible Online Meetings

Micro-course on making meetings inclusive and accessible for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing & people who are blind or vision impaired.

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Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse People in Organising and Campaigning

How organisations and collectives can create more supportive environments for transgender and gender diverse activists to work and grow in.

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Changemaker Chat with Tyson Yunkaporta: Indigenous Thinking

Tyson Yunkaporta discusses Indigenous thinking on power, change, being and coping with chaos.

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Identity Groups to Build Diversity and Power

This extract from the book Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership outlines the value of identity groups, also known as caucuses and affinity spaces.

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Quotes from Beyond the Gender Binary

Quotes which draw on contemporary experiences of living beyond the gender binary to inspire collective action, resistance and solidarity.

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Book Review: We Will Not Cancel Us

Review of the booklet We Will Not Cancel Us – And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown. Discusses transformative justice approaches as an alternative accountability measure to ‘canceling’ individual harm-doers.