Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide For the World Beyond the Church will be released into the wild 2.21.23.
This is my follow up to Dear Church and so much more than that. This is a no bullshit guide to what faith can happen when things fall apart. I propose there is a life-giving, and life saving, way the faithful can walk alongside communities facing state violence.
In #DearRevs I offer practices to prepare you to create counter systems, built on relationship first models, to start to build concentric circles of mutual aid, center gathering/encounters based on a care first model centered on movement sustainability, and how to grieve when no-one else can.
I try to answer the question: How do the already faithful who see the battle ahead wage peace to protect the most vulnerable? With no thought leader industrial complex hook.
There is a literal chapter with title: There Is No 3 Day Training For This Shit.
You can't afford to pay for the class, I get that.
As an artist I am trying to find ways to share my thinking that doesn't involve me getting on a plane or not being compensated for my intellectual labor.
So we are giving away 15 scholarships that privilege: BIPOC femme, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ folks either doing mutual aid work from a faith based perspective, or faith based organizing. Then mutual aid folks. Then faith leaders. This includes seminarians who will be put to the top of the list for faith leaders!
