Organisations working towards a feminist internet, internet freedom, and the safety and agency of human rights defenders, are impacted by persistent and multifaceted change within their contexts
— not least, by the most accelerated developments to technology of our time.
More than anyone, it is ourselves and our people — in our organisations, and in our communities of activism — that bear the brunt of accountability for what can sometimes feel like a perpetual loss in the race against tech-driven, forest- and labour-fueled capitalism, and the misogynist, heteronormative, white-supremacist playbook that informs it.
The NGO industrial complex and its intersections with governments, development agencies and philanthropy are just another way in which colonialism — with all its antics of separation and polarisation — has reinvented itself. And we’ve been in this work long enough to know that the master will never dismantle his own house.
As organisations and networks, if we stand the slightest chance in the current moment, we need to centre relational power in how we understand our work together. And we need strategies for the work that embrace change and responsiveness as part of our very mission.
Having said this, embodying change as an organisation is hard.
It takes grit, and in some cases, a substantial measure of rebellion.
You may be asking,
In this age of perpetual crisis, unpredictability and relentless injustice, can we even afford to invest in changing our organisational practices?
Do we even dare to want care, creativity and play to characterise the texture of our collective work?
Is insisting on an alternative understanding and experience of “impact” worth the risk it poses to the power funders hold in their relationships with us?
We are here to help you strategise towards the liberating responses to those questions.
A resource shed for folks in the thick of organisational practice and looking to dismantle the master’s house.
