Book Autumn
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SPEAKING & WORKSHOPS
Autumn believes that the more we experience our own power, the less and less rational it seems to continue engaging in systems that disempower us. She delivers powerful keynotes about care and resilience, and facilitates writing workshops design to awaken collective imagination as a radical practice. Her creative practice centers on building the new world here and now, and channeling the stories our ancestors wish to be told.
Some of Autumn’s favorite topics to teach and talk about include:
Fortified and Fugitive: Multiracial Movement building for the Win
Alternative Economies of Care: Mutual Aid and Healing Justice
Apocalypse is Now and Always: Remembering our agency
Resiliency is our Birthright: Trauma healing as a pathway to liberation
Visionary Fiction: Movement building and science fiction
Words Mean Things: Identity politics, Intersectionality, and Black Feminism
and of course, Revolutionary mothering!
Facilitation
Autumn works as a facilitator, political educator, and trainer in service of movement building and social change. Over the years, she has facilitated with community and movement organizations in a wide variety of fields, including reproductive justice, education, urban planning, food and environmental justice, anti-violence, green entrepreneurship, alternative transportation, radical social change, and independent media. Her focus as a facilitator is community and organizational transformation through the implementation of egalitarian decision-making practices and anti-racist, anti-oppressive analyses. Her motivating principle is that we cannot create sustainable and transformative social change without using transformative models for doing the work. Autumn utilizes a popular education and emergent design methodology in her client work, while also rooting in black, brown, and indigenous traditions and histories.
Autumn’s facilitation work can be accessed through the queer, multiracial cooperative business she co-owns, AORTA. The Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance (AORTA) is a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. AORTA members work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community based projects through education, training, and planning. We base our work on an intersectional approach to liberation because we believe that true change requires uprooting all systems of oppression.