Team Colors Collective

For the past three years the Team Colors Collective has been asking organizers, activists, artists, and theorists -- Will you join us in the middle of a whirlwind? -- as we have sought to understand the current composition and strength of radical movements in the United States. In utilizing the metaphor of a whirlwind to describe the myriad of struggles that are taking place currently and those that have been blowing across the planet over the past decade, Team Colors has conducted an inquiry and examination of movements in the United States. In cooperation with other organizers and activists, we will present during this two-hour workshop, on the importance of research to movement building as we seek a return radical community organizing—toward making a revolution possible!

“To Care is to Struggle: Voices and Strategies on Care, Support and Social Reproduction” is a two-hour workshop exploring movement building strategies centered on questions of care and support. Team Colors, and friends, will explore the how-to’s of creating initiatives around intimate violence, physical and mental illness / health, different-abilities, childcare and parenthood, gender and trans-gender health issues, burnout. We will include voices that are organizing around care-work; those examining the continued gendered nature of unwaged house and reproductive work; collectives addressing health care, intimate violence, mental health, and other experiences and realities. Here our intent is to interpret “care and support” broadly, focus on creating movements that address these experiences and realities generally and the need for initiatives that organized around these experiences and realities politically and practically.

“Research for the Revolution: Radical Research Strategies for Movement Building” will explore research techniques to strengthen our movements, campaigns and organizations. The first half of this four-hour workshop will consist of short presentations on different approaches to research; the second half will consist of small group discussions and practical skills development. While coordinated by the Midnight Notes Collective and Team Colors Collective, numerous other organizations will be participating. Panelists will include radical theorists and scholars, community organizers, academics and public intellections, geographers and cartographers, research librarians, and artists. Topics include: co-research, community listening sessions, class composition, radical cartography, interventionist and radical art practices, and the importance of theory. Here the workshop incorporates both strategies as well as nuts-and-bolts skills, and offers various strategies to produce knowledge about and from our movements and the communities of which they are a part of.

For the past three years the Team Colors Collective has been asking organizers, activists, artists, and theorists -- Will you join us in the middle of a whirlwind? -- as we have sought to understand the current composition and strength of radical movements in the United States. In utilizing the metaphor of a whirlwind to describe the myriad of struggles that are taking place currently and those that have been blowing across the planet over the past decade, Team Colors has conducted an inquiry and examination of movements in the United States. In cooperation with other organizers and activists, we will present during this two-hour workshop, on the importance of research to movement building as we seek a return radical community organizing—toward making a revolution possible!

“To Care is to Struggle: Voices and Strategies on Care, Support and Social Reproduction” is a two-hour workshop exploring movement building strategies centered on questions of care and support. Team Colors, and friends, will explore the how-to’s of creating initiatives around intimate violence, physical and mental illness / health, different-abilities, childcare and parenthood, gender and trans-gender health issues, burnout. We will include voices that are organizing around care-work; those examining the continued gendered nature of unwaged house and reproductive work; collectives addressing health care, intimate violence, mental health, and other experiences and realities. Here our intent is to interpret “care and support” broadly, focus on creating movements that address these experiences and realities generally and the need for initiatives that organized around these experiences and realities politically and practically.

“Research for the Revolution: Radical Research Strategies for Movement Building” will explore research techniques to strengthen our movements, campaigns and organizations. The first half of this four-hour workshop will consist of short presentations on different approaches to research; the second half will consist of small group discussions and practical skills development. While coordinated by the Midnight Notes Collective and Team Colors Collective, numerous other organizations will be participating. Panelists will include radical theorists and scholars, community organizers, academics and public intellections, geographers and cartographers, research librarians, and artists. Topics include: co-research, community listening sessions, class composition, radical cartography, interventionist and radical art practices, and the importance of theory. Here the workshop incorporates both strategies as well as nuts-and-bolts skills, and offers various strategies to produce knowledge about and from our movements and the communities of which they are a part of.