Twelve-Session Political Education & Organizing Series

An expansive, open-access training rooted in collective liberation
This 12-session training series starting the first weekend of August is an expansive offering built by Mx. Yaffa through their organizing work for over 15 years across dozens of countries and hundreds of communities. This program is open to all. Please keep in mind that this is not a vetted space and participants do not necessarily have a direct relationship with Yaffa. This program is designed to be highly accessible—no cohort structure, no requirement to attend all sessions, and access to stipends to ensure financial accessibility (DM yaffa on instagram @yaffasutopia to request a stipend, please keep in mind stipend funds are limited and we can not guarantee funds).

Each session is 2.5 hours long and stands alone, allowing individuals to engage as their time and interest allow. This is not a fellowship model—it’s broader and more flexible, intended to grow with our people and our movements.

Sessions will be held Sundays starting August 3rd at 10AM PST.

This series is organized into three arcs: Foundation Building, Claiming Values and Practices, and Building Utopia—each designed to support organizers and movement workers in deepening their practice, regardless of positional power, experience, or formal role.

I. FOUNDATION
Establishing the grounding we need to do this work in community, with care, and in clarity.

1. What Is a Foundation?
What do we need to truly root our organizing work? We’ll explore what makes up a solid foundation—collectivism, strategy, and community care—and begin unlearning the individualism embedded in oppressive systems.
2. Organizing Through Conflict
Conflict doesn’t have to derail us. This session centers tools and practices for moving through conflict toward accountability, so we can keep our eyes on the work, not just the tension.
3. Organizing Beyond the Ego
How do we organize from a place of collective liberation—not from ego, fear, or scarcity? We'll look at how ego forms under oppressive systems and how it shows up in organizing, often replicating the very harm we're trying to dismantle.
4. Transness, Disability, and Death as Methodology
More than identities, these are frameworks for organizing. We’ll explore what it means to organize through transness, disability, and death—not just as lived experiences but as methodologies rooted in survival, resourcefulness, and the urgency of now.

II. CLAIMING
Claiming our values, our healing, our power, and our roles.

5. Claiming Collectivism
How do we make collectivism a core value we act from, not just speak to? What does it mean to claim community as a political act?
6. Claiming Healing
This work requires us to take responsibility for how we move and how we show up. Healing is not optional or separate—it’s essential. We build on the work of moving beyond ego, and into responsibility.
7. Claiming Power
We dig deep into power: What is it beyond systemic oppression? What did power look like before these systems? And what will it look like after they're gone?
8. Claiming Our Roles
You can’t step into your role until you understand the shape of power. We’ll explore how to discern your role in a movement—what you bring, what you’re responsible for, and how you stay accountable.

III. BUILDING
Constructing what’s next. Building strategy, systems, and visions of a liberated world.

9. Building Strategy
What is strategy? What is vision? This session bridges all the previous ones to help us build clear, collective strategies grounded in care and liberation.
10. Building Beyond Oppression
If we’re dismantling systems of oppression—what are we building instead? We’ll imagine the infrastructures that replace them.
11. Mutual Aid & Redistribution
How do we build systems of care now? We’ll explore mutual aid, resource redistribution, and the frameworks we can establish today that embody the liberated futures we’re fighting for.
12. Living the World We're Building
What does it mean to live the liberated world every day—not just imagine it as a destination? This final session invites us to dream, practice, and commit to a life aligned with collective liberation.

This training program also coincides with the release of the be cute. stay dangerous. podcast. Follow and listen below.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/be-cute-stay-dangerous/id1831572279

Recommended reading and podcasts to listen to:

To purchase all four directly from the publisher please add the book bundle to your order here. Email info@merajpublishing.com for free ebooks if finances are a concern.

Mutual Aid Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mutual-aid-podcast/id1778288246

Be Cute. Stay Dangerous.

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