{"id":4160,"date":"2020-11-25T01:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T01:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:57:01","slug":"partnerprofile-pirc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/es\/partnerprofile-pirc\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative is fractal : Why we need more than words to truly face racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterest.org.uk\/\">PIRC<\/a> believe our society is built on stories. Stories \u2013 of our past, present and future \u2013 which provide the scaffolding for our political systems, our social structures, and our own thinking.\u00a0 Effective strategies for social transformation involve the contest for how we think, how we see, and the stories we tell about our world. New stories, new thinking, help new worlds come into being.<\/p>\n<p>PIRC\u2019s aim is to strengthen the capacity of our movements to map, reframe and create narratives that will change society and, particularly, to provide support to lower-income and grassroots groups with limited financial resources, who often find themselves excluded from this kind of framing work. The charity facilitates workshops and provides training, conducts\u00a0 participatory research, and produces resources and materials that make the framing process accessible, easy to understand and enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Since 2018 PIRC and the Ulex Project have been working in partnership to design and deliver a series of trainings which focus on\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/es\/courses_events\/framing-narrative-story-based-strategy\/\">Framing, Narrative and Story-Based Strategy<\/a>, with an emphasis on the<\/span>\u00a0role of framing in work on climate justice and tackling the rise of the far right in Europe. The training draws on PIRC\u2019s work on\u00a0Framing Equality,\u00a0Framing the Economy, and their recent\u00a0Framing Climate Justice\u00a0research project.<\/p>\n<p>Elena Blackmore currently\u00a0leads the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterest.org.uk\/framing-equality\">Framing LGBTI Equality<\/a>\u00a0project at PIRC. Before that she was involved in a number of their previous publications, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterest.org.uk\/download\/Common-Cause-for-Nature-Full-Report.pdf\">Common Cause for Nature<\/a><i>,<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/valuesandframes.org\/hate-racism-love-finland-10-ways-our-values-link-to-our-prejudices-across-europe\/\">Valuing Equality<\/a>,\u00a0the<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170812225132\/http:\/\/valuesandframes.org:80\/handbook\/1-why-values-matter\/\">Common Cause Handbook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Building Bridges<em>\u00a0<\/em>(on the framing of human rights in the UK). Elena is most interested in how our cultural stories shape oppression and the ways we interact with each other and the natural world. The\u00a0article below was\u00a0written by Elena in June 2020 shortly after the murder of George Floyd and the tide of Black Lives Matter uprisings that were sparked in response.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted\" \/>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4161\" src=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-24-at-22.59.18.png\" alt=\"The statue of slave trader Edward Colston getting toppled into the water by Black Lives Matter protestors in Bristol in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in June 2020. \" width=\"673\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Narrative is more than words<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>He will never see her grow up, graduate. He will never walk her down the aisle.<br \/>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/100000007170825\/george-floyd-family.html?campaign_id=51&amp;emc=edit_MBE_p_20200603&amp;instance_id=19039&amp;nl=morning-briefing&amp;regi_id=132599834&amp;section=topNews&amp;segment_id=29933&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=04a062b12e06c04abda2a781083e094f\">Roxie Washington<\/a>, mother of George Floyd\u2019s daughter<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"blurb\">I don\u2019t think many people truly believe the old\u00a0<i>sticks and stones<\/i>\u00a0adage anymore. But working in the world of\u00a0<i>framing<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>strategic comm<\/i>s, it\u2019s easy to take it to the other extreme and believe the power of words to be paramount. But words are just one vehicle for the meaning we extract from and use to shape our lives.<\/p>\n<p>What causes my gut to wrench and the grief to wrack my body when I hear of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade is, only in the simplest of senses, caused by the words I read on a screen. The immediate pain lies in the stories themselves, located beyond the words: the brutal events, the violent interplay between the characters, the horror of the ending. The lives taken: the whole, messy, beautiful humans who will never again walk through their front door or laugh or hug their loved ones again.<\/p>\n<p><b>And each of their stories is another tile in an incomprehensibly vast mosaic of a narrative that taps into a deep well of familiar pain, a dull ache that I\u2019ve held for as long as I remember.\u00a0<\/b><span id=\"more-11411\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is the narrative mosaic of white supremacy and it comprises hundreds of years\u2019 worth of tiles of violent history. We can understand a narrative in this way: as a \u2018coherent system of stories\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.storybasedstrategy.org\/the-book\">Centre for Story-Based Strategy<\/a>). The white supremacy narrative is a simple but clear one: it posits that there are white people and non-white people; the white people are the default\u2014normal, valued, attractive, worthy\u2014and the non-white ones are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-bad-is-black-effect\/\">the transgression<\/a>. The narrative tension lies in the ongoing, epic and often lethal struggle of non-white folks to prove themselves to be of worth. (This is the abridged version, of course: there are many competing, complicating and compounding factors that dictate how worthy we deem folk to be. But it holds a deeply-felt truth nonetheless.)<\/p>\n<h2>Narrative is fractal<\/h2>\n<p>The story I read in the news is of a far away violent event, without justice. But the narrative that I understand is that black people, black bodies are not valued, are not deemed worthy. The truth that I\u00a0<i>feel<\/i>\u00a0is that\u00a0<i>I<\/i>\u00a0am not worthy. Hence the simple but radically disruptive potential of the frame\u00a0<i>Black Lives Matter<\/i>, and the searing joy of seeing the folks on the street, the physical expression of belief in worth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?<br \/>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6_uYWDyYNUg\">Malcolm X<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The narrative is ubiquitous. It is in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2019\/may\/22\/token-ethnic-friends-how-pop-culture-taught-me-i-was-support-not-the-lead\">Hollywood stories with the token character of colour<\/a>\u00a0(who is two dimensional, a humorous or tragic prop, the one who dies). It is in the news stories in which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/media-black-victims_n_5673291?ri18n=true&amp;guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jb25zZW50LnlhaG9vLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFyBuIaVGro0pxLDqEcwtAX0cGWnd7fzHJ3cIfoT85rBrJhgCT-J4IiNCh9S8_b3dc9P0gR-0dvFs9me56u7kcqIp273JbcxTmh5v1rpxsOGU5YeGxdDlhhhCSriZQ15a-GZ6Z9Le_lS_mSrCKf8pFwu_gL64bow-nWver3d9Tcj\">white suspects are treated better than black victims<\/a>. It\u2019s in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/jul\/17\/only-1-of-uk-childrens-books-feature-main-characters-of-colour\">kids stories<\/a>\u00a0or the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2011\/mar\/15\/midsomer-murders-producer-race-row\">\u00a0long-running British TV favourites with no black characters<\/a>\u00a0(the\u00a0<i>\u2018last bastion of Englishness\u2019<\/i>). It\u2019s in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\/2016\/01\/when-beauty-equals-white\/\">Eurocentric beauty standards<\/a>\u00a0in advertising, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nursingtimes.net\/news\/coronavirus\/exclusive-are-we-whitewashing-coronavirus-12-04-2020\/\">whitewashing of the story of who has borne the burden and the brunt of the pandemic<\/a>. It\u2019s the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/racialjusticenetwork.co.uk\/2020\/05\/30\/we-still-cant-breathe-channeling-our-rage-to-action-2\/\">number of black people who die in police custody<\/a>, not just in the States but\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irr.org.uk\/news\/dying-for-justice\/\">here in the UK<\/a>, without a murmur of public concern, let alone convictions. It\u2019s the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2020\/may\/25\/the-killing-of-ahmaud-arbery\">two months it takes for charges to be brought<\/a>\u00a0against violent white men who hunt down and kill a man out running. I don\u2019t need to go on.<\/p>\n<p><b>But it\u2019s not just\u00a0<\/b><b><i>out there<\/i><\/b><b>. It\u2019s not just\u00a0<\/b><b><i>those racist people<\/i><\/b><b>. We are all constantly placing tiles in the narrative mosaic, and without conscious effort, we\u2019re likely to be recreating the same old familiar patterns.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, the lack of diversity in the sector I work in: the charity sector. The sector most explicitly focused towards equality and justice, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acevo.org.uk\/2020\/01\/what-are-the-barriers-to-increased-racial-diversity-within-the-third-sector\/\">failing to represent those it seeks to serve within its own ranks<\/a>. Anecdotally, in my experience, the comms and framing sub-\u2018sector\u2019 I work in suffers the same problem. No,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=90G_QdxqqJs\">it\u2019s not about black faces in high places<\/a>. But what story are we \u2018storytellers\u2019 telling as a majority white, middle class group, writing the framing strategies for racial or migrant justice? The words are almost irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Or take the uncomfortable truths I am facing about myself, week on week, as I work through Layla F Saad\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/laylafsaad.com\/meandwhitesupremacy\">Me &amp; White Supremacy<\/a>\u00a0workbook with a small group of friends. The internalised beliefs I am heartbroken to recognise are inextricably linked to the violence I see.<\/p>\n<p><b>The narrative of white supremacy is not something\u00a0<\/b><b><i>out there<\/i><\/b><b>.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is made up of infinite individual and collective stories: daily actions, lives lived, our organisations and careers, the media and culture we engage with, what we buy and who from.<\/p>\n<h2>How do we change this narrative?<\/h2>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.akpress.org\/emergentstrategy.html\">Emergent Strategy<\/a>, adrienne maree brown asks us to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthlingopinion.wordpress.com\/2019\/03\/01\/fractals-the-relationship-between-small-and-large\/\">think fractal<\/a>: \u201cHow we are at the small scale is how we are at the large scale\u2026 Grace Lee Boggs articulated it in what might be the most-used quote of my life: \u2018Transform yourself to transform the world.\u2019 This doesn\u2019t mean to get lost in the self, but rather to see our own lives and work and relationships as a front line, a first place we can practice justice, liberation, and alignment\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>So just as each violent story is part of the broader narrative of white supremacy, we can live and act the story of liberation ourselves<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I love\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/couragecoach.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/21\/reckoning-rumble-revolution\/\">Brene Brown<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<i>Reckon, Rumble, Revolution\u00a0<\/i>model of shifting stories:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Reckon<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>The times are urgent, let us slow down.<br \/>\n<cite><a href=\"http:\/\/bayoakomolafe.net\/\">Bayo Akomolafe<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Brene Brown talks about the first step in changing our stories as the reckoning:\u00a0<\/b><b><i>getting stuck into how it feels<\/i><\/b><b>.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shilpa-shah.com\/will-you-still-be-there-next-week-next-month-next-year\/\">Shilpa Shah notes<\/a>\u00a0that the narrative, the trauma, is embedded in our nervous systems. As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_uk\/article\/n7wbyw\/george-floyd-uk-state-racism\">Ayeisha Thomas-Smith says<\/a>, particularly for folks of colour: \u201cRun, yell, cry, sing, dance, just let this pain be in your body or move through it in whatever way feels right. Give yourself space to let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ayeisha for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DX673Mh4M9yQJ?si=ZpglgUdBTTuZlQYWAXOv-w\">this playlist<\/a>\u00a0too. I\u2019d also recommend adrienne maree brown\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/2irfmyabDJuL57hKnR4HBE?si=buqtm6l8QzOB6z8yCUVXZQ\">selflove twerkout<\/a>\u00a0or Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/7dK54iZuOxXFarGhXwEXfF?si=4sJ3znPjQuWDAcTz7WOJXQ\">Lemonade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. Rumble<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>If you are paying attention to &amp; sharing the names &amp; stories of what\u2019s happening in the US but not paying attention to what\u2019s happening here you need to pause. This problem isn\u2019t \u2018over there\u2019: that is explicitly the system that colonial Britain set up\u201d<br \/>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NMRLPH\/status\/1267112108396871682\">Nim Ralph<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>The next step is to challenge the narrative: looking for the roots of the beliefs you hold and the stories you tell and facing them head on.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m eternally grateful for the labour of these amazing women of colour that has gone into resources such as Rachel Cargle\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thegreatunlearn\">Great Unlearn<\/a>, Reni Eddo-Lodge\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race\/reni-eddo-lodge\/9781408870587\">Why I\u2019m No Longer Talking to White People About Race<\/a>\u00a0(and her podcast\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutracepodcast.com\/\">About Race<\/a>) and Ijeoma Oluo\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sealpress.com\/titles\/ijeoma-oluo\/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race\/9781580056779\/\">So You Want to Talk About Race<\/a>. And particularly for white folks and people with white privilege, I\u2019d highly recommend Layla F Saad\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/laylafsaad.com\/meandwhitesupremacy\"><i>Me &amp; White Supremacy<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i>Don\u2019t just read it, though:\u00a0<i>do it.\u00a0<\/i>It\u2019s uncomfortable, painful, and needed.<\/p>\n<p>To grapple with the creation of these narratives, listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sceneonradio.org\/seeing-white\/\">Seeing White<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sceneonradio.org\/the-land-that-never-has-been-yet\/\">The Land that Has Never Been Yet<\/a>\u00a0for a powerful US-perspective or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.co.uk\/pd\/We-Need-to-Talk-About-the-British-Empire-Audiobook\/B081581253\">We Need to Talk About The British Empire<\/a>\u00a0to get stuck into the elephant in the room for us Brits. The current season of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dissectpodcast.com\/\">Dissect<\/a>, delving into the meaning of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Lemonade, is truly healing for me right now: I felt myself crack open as they talked about the\u00a0<i>disruptive force of accountability.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And follow folks like:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nmrlph?lang=en\">@NMRLPH<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFFCampaign\">@UFFCampaign<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/galdemzine\">@galdemzine<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RunnymedeTrust\">@RunnymedeTrust<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCWI_UK\">@JCWI_UK<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SistersUncut\">@SistersUncut<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpBlackVote\">@OpBlackVote<\/a>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/digital\/news\/11-anti-racist-accounts-that-are-worth-following-1234621505\/\">11 more anti-racist social media accounts to follow<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>If you work in an organisation or organise in a group, the time to take a long hard look at your collective narratives\u2014from your external-facing comms to the inner truths of the structures, dynamics and voices that are heard\u2014was yesterday. At an individual and organisational level, think about where your money is going. Whose work (lives) do you value?<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. Revolution<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>Now is time to invest in the new narrative.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storybasedstrategy.org\/intro-to-sbs\">Show, don\u2019t tell<\/a>, that you value people of colour. There are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/things-to-do\/how-to-support-black-lives-matter\">plenty of groups<\/a>\u00a0who need your support, if you are able. Currently,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/ms_blm_homepage_2019\">Black Lives Matter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/georgefloyd\">Official George Floyd Memorial Fund<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naacpldf.org\/\">NAACP Legal Defense Fund<\/a>\u00a0need support for the ongoing protests in the US. In the UK, support organisations such as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/racialjusticenetwork.co.uk\/2020\/05\/30\/we-still-cant-breathe-channeling-our-rage-to-action-2\/\">Racial Justice Network<\/a>\u00a0(thanks to Penny for this blog and suggestions for action too).<\/p>\n<p>Seek change within your organisations and the groups you\u2019re in: as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.how-matters.org\/2020\/06\/01\/ways-to-be-in-action-against-anti-black-racism\/?fbclid=IwAR3lgDLkLyOWBZGP4JAcvJw2DUCsnFe_SYhZkObemVx7Kx99dsUcrx07fYQ\">How Matters argues<\/a>, we should: \u201cCall for an end to all white boards and all white leadership\u2026 Call attention to whose knowledge, expertise and experience is undervalued\u2026 Be an unapologetic advocate for the redistribution of financial resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But think about your words too. For strategies for rethinking our framing and communications, check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.topospartnership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Two-Narrative-Strategies-for-Engaging-on-Race-May-2020.pdf\">this<\/a>\u00a0from Topos,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/colorofchange.org\/narrativepower\/#book1\">this<\/a>\u00a0from Color of Change,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nowhitesaviors.org\/\">No White Saviours<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.demos.org\/campaign\/race-class-narrative-project\">this<\/a>\u00a0from the Race-Class Narrative Project, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/uploads\/Making-the-Case-for-Race-Equality%20-%20full%20report%20final.pdf\">this<\/a>\u00a0from Runnymede &amp; Voice4Change England. Challenge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterest.org.uk\/part-5-virus-beast-or-crime\/\">episodic framing<\/a>\u00a0of racial injustices.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBe an unapologetic advocate for communications that do not center whiteness in the world. Africans and people in the Global South have been calling for the\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_savior#%22White_Savior_Industrial_Complex%22\"><i>white savior narrative\/industrial complex<\/i><\/a><i>, and\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/double_x\/doublex\/2014\/06\/nicholas_kristof_wants_to_save_the_world_with_his_new_york_times_columns.html\"><i>bridge characters<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0to be retired for eons. This matters because this is how stereotypes, generalisations, victimisation, exploitation, and heroism are exposed, challenged, and healed.\u201d\u2014<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.how-matters.org\/2020\/06\/01\/ways-to-be-in-action-against-anti-black-racism\/?fbclid=IwAR3lgDLkLyOWBZGP4JAcvJw2DUCsnFe_SYhZkObemVx7Kx99dsUcrx07fYQ\">How Matters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teach kids about race. Like, now. Some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/02\/parenting\/kids-books-racism-protest.html\">book suggestions<\/a>; some podcasts on how to have the conversations\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2BAooYCoyhtgTcaPKuNwfG\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/longestshortesttime.com\/episode-116-how-to-not-accidentally-raise-a-racist\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/04\/24\/716700866\/talking-race-with-young-children\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And when you\u2019re ready,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Smh2uf4JLo\">watch this<\/a>\u00a0from Emmauelle Andrews &amp; team and read adrienne maree brown\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.akpress.org\/pleasure-activism.html\">Pleasure Activism<\/a>\u00a0to lay the tiles* of a new narrative in which you are truly worthy and deserving of wholeness, pleasure and joy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we\u2019re going to heal, let it be glorious.<br \/>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/7dK54iZuOxXFarGhXwEXfF?si=4sJ3znPjQuWDAcTz7WOJXQ\">Beyonc\u00e9 \/ Warsan Shire<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/narrativeinitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TheNarrativeInitiative_TowardNewGravity.pdf\">Narrative Initiative<\/a>\u00a0for the beautiful tile \/ mosaic metaphor.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published by\u00a0PIRC on June 8, 2020. Written by Elena Blackmore. Link to original article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterest.org.uk\/narrative-is-fractal\/\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Find out more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterest.org.uk\/project\/framing-equality\/\">PIRC &#8211; Framing Equality<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterest.org.uk\/project\/framing-the-economy\/\">PIRC &#8211; Framing the Economy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterest.org.uk\/framing-climate-justice\/\">PIRC &#8211; Framing Climate Justice<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/es\/courses_events\/framing-narrative-story-based-strategy\/\">Framing, Narrative and Story-Based Strategy: Ulex Training 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted\" \/>\n<p><strong>READ ON:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/es\/8-resilience-trainers-offer-2-top-tips\/\">8 Resilience Trainers offer their 2 Top Tips<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first of a series of profile\u00a0pieces on Ulex project partners, we&#8217;re highlighting the excellent work of the Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) in Wales. 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