With a ‘stunning democratic breakdown’ occurring across much of the Balkans, LGBTQI+ people are living within an increasingly overt hostile environment. We interviewed 5 activists from across the region to learn first-hand how resilience and resistance are being woven together within queer organizing circles.
When navigating through stress and uncertainty what are some of the ways we might develop resilience and collective care in a time of Deep Change? By Lindsay Alderton Seven months into 2020 and the principle of […]
An interview with Ulex trainer Lou Hemmerman about the importance of trauma-informed sustainable activism and how body-based practices can support healing at both an individual and movement level. “Somatics is a freedom-inducing framework. The central idea is that […]
In November 2019, the Ulex Project worked with the Landworkers Alliance to design a bespoke training in ‘Facilitation, sustainable organising and movement building’ to support their staff to better build skills and strategies for organising […]
For the third year running the Ulex Project is collaborating with Advaya to offer the Regenerative Activism series, this time in the online space. The times are calling for renewed energy and adaptive capacities. To meet […]
Since we launched in 2016 the Ulex coordination team has grown, with the original crew of Gee, Ella, Lindsay and Carol joined by five new members – Eweryst, Lou, Neus, Kat and Sheila. Our logistics […]
In these increasingly challenging and uncertain times, the need to build resilience into our organising structures becomes ever more essential. But what are some of the ways we might develop resilience, both within ourselves and […]
For some in social justice circles ‘ally’ has become a somewhat loaded term, with many arguing that the word has lost its power to build trust or meaningful solidarity. We spoke with trans activist and anti-oppression facilitator Kyle […]
We spoke with activist educator Holly Hammond about the newly launched Commons Social Change Library, an online repository of freely available social movement stories, strategies and tools. Coming from a family of librarians, with grandparents who […]
Amidst the wave of protests shaping the globe in 2019, Animal Think Tank and the activists behind Animal Rebellion have had an extraordinary year. Repeatedly thrust into the mainstream through a range of high profile […]