Dinner Dialogues
Facilitated dinner conversations for a small group. The first dialogue is coming soon.
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Launched in Oakland in 2008 on a simple truth: everyone has a story worth telling — and the power to tell it in their own voice.
Write to Heal
Some medicine is prescribed. Some is practiced.
For many of us, writing is exactly that practice. Write to Heal gathers us in a circle to put our whole selves into words — our joys and our hardest experiences — and to be witnessed, without judgment or fixing, while we do.
It is in this space when group members connect, realize they are not alone, remember we all have similar struggles. This is when the healing happens. Write to Heal was the lifeline I needed. Write to Heal participant
- Monthly writing circles · Oakland and Online
- 52-week writing practice and other free writing resources
- Themed prompt collections · grief, racism, trauma, and more
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Rebeldes
el corazón del activismo es amor.
Not greeting-card love — radical love. The kind that shows up in the streets and at kitchen tables. Wearable dichos rooted in AfroChicano, Black, and Brown liberation, anchored in a simple conviction: resistance is always about love.
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Glass Closet
The book by Robert Quintana Hopkins, published in 2009.
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