Inclusive sex ed empowers our communities, and keeps people safe

Tara Michaela is a Black, queer sex educator based in Philadelphia and New York. She is the founder of The Youth Sexpert Program, a non-profit training program that aims to provide comprehensive sex education for high school aged youth, so they can become their community's sex expert. Her work focuses primarily on how injustice manifests in sexual interactions. She uses her social media platforms and written pieces to connect with her community on these issues.

What can you do?

Stay up to date with YSP:

• The YSP 💛 (@theyouths3xpertprogram) • Instagram photos and videos
• The Youth Sexpert Program (@theyouths3xpertprogram) | TikTok
• The Youth Sexpert Program

Sex Ed x Abolition Readings:

• The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan
• Pleasure Activism, adrienne maree brown
• Good Sex Illustrated, Tony Duvert
• The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
• We Do This Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba
• You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now? | by Luke Malone

Related orgs:

• Restorative Justice Coalition Request a Healing Circle
• Zepp Wellness

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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Andrew Sage and is an introduction to Solarpunk: Everything you need to know about Solarpunk, how it connects to climate justice and how to get involved with the movement.

Andrew is a writer, artist, organiser, and YouTuber born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago. As an ardent anarchist and firm believer in power to the people, Andrew aims to invigorate imaginations and encourage people to create a better world in the shell of the old.

What can you do?

• Andrewism is a YouTube channel that focuses on the intersections between anarchism, anthropology, history, ecology, economy, Blackness, and more, with a particular emphasis on real world solutions and the practical potential of solarpunk.
• Our Changing Climate is a YouTube channel that investigates humanity’s relationship to the natural world and all that entails.
• Think That Through is a YouTube channel that explores various aspects of climate change, the capitalocene, greenwashing, and more.
• Andrew Millison is a YouTube channel that provides excellent resources on ecosystem restoration, permaculture, and ongoing projects in the field.
• Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach is an excellent utopia novel written in 1975 that explores one potential, though flawed, manifestation of solarpunk principles in an alternative Cascadia. The author has noted that, “It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we’d better get ready. We need to know where we’d like to go.”

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Welcome back! This weeks article in focus is brought to us by Kavian Kulasabanathan, written in conversation with Prentis Hemphill, author of ‘What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World’.

Kavian is an Eela-Tamil physician focused on state violence as a determinant of poor health. From this starting point, he is interested in uses of the collective imagination, community-led and -owned models of care and place-making in journeying toward abolitionist, collectively liberated futures. He organises with Race & Health and the People's Health Movement.

What can you do?

• Listen: Becoming the People - Prentis Hemphill (all the episodes are brilliant, including from the previous series Finding Our Way!)
• Listen: For the Wild - NKEM NDEFO on the Body as Compass
• Watch: Societal Healing and Belonging
• Watch: The Power of Somatics for Collective Transformation - Healing Justice London
• Short read: What is politicised somatics? and Why Somatics for Social Justice and a Transformative Movement?
• Long Read: The Politics of Trauma - Staci K Haines
• Follow: @ generative somatics
• Follow: @Lumos Transformed
• Follow: @Healing Justice London
• Follow: @The Embodiment Institute
• Read: What is Health Justice?

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Welcome to our first ever episode of shado in focus. Today's article in focus is brought to us by Energy Embargo for Palestine, an anti-imperialist climate group based in Britain, who break down the role of BP and the British state in fuelling the Zionist genocide.

What can you do?

• Join Energy Embargo for Palestine by filling in this form.
• Follow Energy Embargo for Palestine on Instagram and X and attend their protests
• Energy Embargo for Palestine is a coalition member in the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mask off Maersk campaign, disrupting the weapons trade facilitated by logistics companies. Support the PYM and their campaign on Maersk here
• Become a monthly donor of Energy Embargo for Palestine and support our work
• Join an anti-imperialist organising group in your locale!

Reading suggestions:

Palestine

• Misreading Palestine, Max Ajl
• Two Logics of War: Liberation against Genocide, Bikrum Gil
• Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, Fayez Sayegh
• Framing Palestine, Adam Hanieh

Climate politics and a Just Transition

• A People’s Green New Deal, Max Ajl
• Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition, Jodi Dean and Kai Heron
• OCI Data Desk report
• As They Laid Down Their Cables, Laleh Khalili

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