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We know this is a stressful time, we hope that our resources are able to bring some comfort in this unstable time. We are experiencing this together!
Who are we?
Who are we?
We are a group of Gen Z college students, recent college graduates, and our peers in our journey for justice. Anyone is able to join our efforts of providing resources for the public, and inquiries can be sent through the Support Google Form. We also have a Builder Application Google Form that will be sent to you upon completion and review of the support form. This is open to all pople with any skills, as we know there is alwasy more to provide or guide. Let us know what you think - suggestions are also taken in the Comments and Questions Google Form. We are commited to finding a way to organize our communities in preparation, for a time in which community empowerment is vital.
Where are we?
Where are we?
We are based out of Denver, C.O. USA but we accomodate people around the nation, and hope to bring education and light to these community organizing needs. We also want to provide young adults with the resources and education we wish was more readily available to us at a youger age.
What do we believe in?
What do we believe in?
We believe in so many things, but we believe that everyone's personal and private beliefs should be protected and upheld to for their own person. Of course, we don't believe that the personal views of one or many, should be the beliefs or rules for all. Instead, we can choose laws based on group morality that structure a safe and inquisitive society.
Team Members:
Team Members:
Team Members
At this current time, our members would rather stay anonymous for the safety both of the team members and those in the community. We have attached below the moral reasons team members have given for their work with in This Is Activism.
THISISACTIVISM, got its name for a policy at a university located in the United States, that said students could not face scholarly dismissal or disenfranchisement is the work they are doing is in the name of activism and moral/ethical expansion. The creators of this website, first began their work as a sticker campaign at this university, that empowered students of all genders and identities to feel safer with the people they are around. These stickers grew a community of students who clearly displayed their support for healthcare & sexual education, harm reduction, and activism-based community care. This allowed for BIPOC, AFAB, and queer students to feel more represented and cared for by their community. It helped to socially create a set of societal beliefs or values that can help build a social contract. All this entails is the
After the stickers grew to more universities in our area, we were able to get together a group of people who wanted to build this resource. We knew that when we were growing up both before high school and after, there was a lot of information and care from community that we did not receive, many facing harm and abuse instead. The goal of this resource is to give people access to all the information they may require to make an informed decision about their health, education, and activism. We did not have access to the proper resources growing up and with the increased usage of AI and untrusted sources, we are being pushed towards participating with/in predatory social behaviors even today. There are plenty of things we can't trust, and we encourage you to question us, and ask us for more information. At the bottom of each page there is a link to a Comments and Questions Google form where we can actively respond and edit our website accordingly.
We don't claim to be an all knowing resource, but we know that there are good people out there doing great things and we want to amplify their work while expanding the access to resources one has. The goal of this website's provided information, is that we are not the only main source. We know that the good resources that are out there are hard to find, so we have been trying to out them all in one place. If you have a resource that you think is important, but may not currently have a place in our website, we are always willing to build new pages to include helpful information. It's our hope that we can help people have the information they need to make an informed decision, which is often inaccessible. Any information that can help in that way, has a home here. As focused as we are on activism, a strong facet of that activism is always going to be knowledge. We deserve to know how our bodies work, its our belief that most people should have access to all the information one may need to know about their body (a medical degree) without cost or intellectual colonization that prevents people from having access to that information.
Motivations, Values & Boundaries
Motivations, Values & Boundaries
We hope to bring awareness to a lot of the concerns surrounding activism in our day and age, but since we directly work with those organizing in our community, we know a lot about the challenges that can arise. It's important that no matter the group you are working with, you question their motivations, values and boundaries. Every organizing group should be able to discuss these without concern, but that is not always the case. We know that when we curate a space to hold people who are vulnerable, that predators are attracted to those places. That does not mean we don't curate that space, it means we create a strong set of values and boundaries to properly hold the community that we are creating accountable for their actions. This includes, properly informing the community on how to report unwanted or predatory behaviors, and how the people organizing plan to handle these types of behavior. We've listed ours below (note these are for the website creators, and are not written for a group of activists.)
Motivations
Motivations
To provide the access to information that we did not have access to when we were making decisions that impacted our lives.
To encourage people in their activism, while also keeping us grounded in the goal.
To provide a space where uncomfortable questions are answered without assumptions.
To call attention to predatory behaviors in all aspects of our lives, so we can better combat and discuss them.
Holding our community accountable for their predatory and manipulative actions and seeking reformative justice.
Setting forth a social contract, not defined by one's set of beliefs, but by the congruency of those beliefs with the people around you.
Goal of Creating Positive Change: to have a positive social impact on our community. Something that adds access, and does not take it away.
Creating Access to Resources that are not readily available, we believe that good resources shouldn't be hard to find, so are goal is to put them all in one place.
Growth can't happen all by itself, we must work together in order to grow. When we do things that only work to benefit ourselves, we only have the effort of ourselves; however, when we work towards a common goal with those who benefit, we have a team of people who can create positive change.
Values
Values
Consent, whether through prior knowledge, explicit language, or social justice. Consent is often remarked in relationt to sexual actions, but consent is everywhere, and revolves around everything we do in society. There are many harms and predatory behaviors that rely on taking away consent, often times in the way of knowledge.
Societal Constructs, set forth by Colonialism and White Supremacy, should be well understood and actively avoided, so that they are not upheld or replicated in our community. Creating a New Social Contract that prioritizes consent.
Working against Social Oppression Systems, Discrimination systems, requires effort all the time. People of all kinds benefit or suffer from these system, sometimes without our consent. When we are able to choose differently, we make that choice, so we don't benefit from others suffering.
Sustainability is important in all aspects from community care to environmental safety, in order to do that we must decolonize our way of thinking. (no white-veganism)
Expanding our education and understanding of the world starting with our bodies. We deserve to have knowledge on how our bodies work and what they can do. Without that information we are more likely to experience physical abuse, predatory behavior, and physical disability.
Expanding our awareness of what we consider to be differences or disabilities, and how we can better hold space for them. We also nkkow how important disabled people's work is to the activist movements.
Boundaries
Boundaries
We do not uplift or hold space for continuous predatory behavior, and people who replicate dangerous oppressionary systems in our community.
There is a difference in the ways that people are treated by society due to their intersectional identities, and we will not ignore those truths, and continue to hold space for the effects. Privilege is often based on factors that we do not choose, but that doesn't mean that we have to use that privilege when given the choice.
The intersection of identities is important, but can sometimes be co-opted to become a shelter for predatory behavior. We've known for a long time that identities get misrepresented, but its important that we remember each person is their own, they do not represent a group. (White queer groups that foster an unhealthy and dangerous environment for BIPOC people.)
We are always hoping that people feel comfortable to criticize us and the way we do things, if you have any opinions on what we could do better we would love to hear.
Why?
Why?
We all have a very deep connection with the current and future issues our generation and others will face. Our Environment, both physical and social, is important to respect, protect, and build, so that our quality of life can improve. We hope that with the right community building we can uphold our community with the strength we each hold.
Where?
Where?
Many of us have experiences growing up or living in Anti-Choice States, and states where social discrimination is very high, so many of us feel strongly in education and understanding. We hope that with these resources some may be able to overcome the challenges that social discrimination brings forth to the community.
Be Apart of Our Change:
Be Apart of Our Change:
We are currently looking for people who are ready to help us put together the resources our community needs. This will look like everything from helping us do chalk events, protests/ rallies, attending events, research for the online site, designig of stickers, etc. We are also hoping to partner with people all over the community to give recognition and stronger social power to the minorities groups across the country. We are all on this journey together, and we hope that if you would like to add to our website or community, you should!
You can fill out our Builder & Supporter Interest Form , which will allow us to get more in contact with you and see how we can all help one another build a better world for eachother.
If you have any suggestions, or things you wish were available please let us know in the Questions and Comments Form. This will allow us to formulate our best response and take time for research, but if you have special knowlegde on this subject we would love it if you also reached out to our email thisisactivism2023@gmail.com, so we can get in contact with you, etc. We will always give credit where it is due, as long as they want the credit.
How do we plan to help?
How do we plan to help?
We plan to set up this website as an online resource for those who may be experiencing confusion or in need of better understanding of certain topics. We know that not all people are given the basic foundations of caring for oneself based on the environment they grew up in. As basic and redundant some of this information may seem, we want to cover any and all bases around these topics.
Coming soon we will have an online store front that will sell patches, stickers, apparel, and protesting equipment. This is so that we can fund the wages of those who built this site, as well as supporting the community as well, (less need for crowd sourcing of resources). We plan to also put together a wishlist or page of resources that need to be crowdsourced for protests, marginalized communities, or community organizers working with us. This is hoped to be funded between Gen Z and other constituents.
We are licensed as an LLC in the STATE of COLORADO, which means that we are not a non-profit. This status allows us to support our community organizing efforts, while paying our employees a fair wage. In all ways we can, we will be functioning as a non-profit. The building of this business has been directing taken on by a few number of Gen Z college students, so it is our hope that we will be able to repay those few for starting costs as well.
At the same time, as we grow we would like to develope into a non-profit, but we know that the resources we provide may never allow us legally be identifiable as a non-profit or 501-c3 status. We are dedicated to fighting the oppression and injustice that happens in and outside of our home nation (USA), but we will always be here to support our community organizing.
Why did we choose this?
Why did we choose this?
We want to create change in the best ways possible, by connecting those of us willing to stand up for each other, together. We can change the function of the systems and institutions in which we function by using our voices, resources, and communal efforts for good. Mutual aid relief in small groups can turn into bigger and bigger groups as you meet new people. Of course our goal of providing education is broad, but it's our hope that someone's questions that may seem scary, can become less scary when they visit a place willing to give them the resources they may need.
There is more research being done to finish this page, please be patient with us.
There is more research being done to finish this page, please be patient with us.
If you would like to help us write about commonly silenced areas or personal experiences you may have with these topics, contact us at thisisactivism2023@gmail.com or fill out our Comments page. We want our website to be a continuous growth of knowledge to share with each other in a positive way. There are so many things we don't talk about and we should!
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