{"id":362316,"date":"2024-06-13T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/?p=362316"},"modified":"2024-06-13T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:38:08","slug":"everyones-an-activist-we-need-more-organizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/justice\/everyones-an-activist-we-need-more-organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone&#8217;s an \u201cactivist.\u201d We need more organizers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The breakdown between \u201cactivists\u201d and \u201corganizers&#8221; for our justice column <em><strong>LET\u2019S MAKE SOME GOOD IN THE WORLD<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WORDS BY ELIEL CRUZ<br \/>\nPHOTOGRAPHY BY<strong><span class=\"extension-adhd-reader-wrapper\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"User:Ctruongngoc\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Ctruongngoc\">Claude TRUONG-NGOC<\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"User:Ctruongngoc\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Ctruongngoc\">Ctruongngoc<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GITW_V2.png\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometime in the 2000s, many became an \u201cactivist\u201d for simply speaking out about injustice. In the wake of the 2020 uprisings, now everyone is an \u201cactivist,\u201d at least in their Instagram bio. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as every person with a conscience should use their platform to advocate for good in the world, but this also allows many \u2014 celebrities, authors, musicians, influencers \u2014 to co-opt activism\u2019s ethos for their personal brand by doing what I\u2019d call the bare minimum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the conversations on white supremacy, oppression, and systemic issues came to the surface in recent years, an expectation has grown for everyday people, regardless of their social following size, to use their platform to speak out on the trending injustice. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/how-to-use-social-media-like-an-organizer-eliel-cruz-column?utm_brand=them&amp;utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I\u2019ve written before<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cOur social media accounts are extensions of the ways we interact, learn, and connect with each other. And so we must also use them in ways that reflect our commitment to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">building the type of communities and world we need<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d This includes speaking out in the digital world<\/span><b>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The issue to me is that some see Story-sharing as activism in and of itself and fail to find deeper ways to change the world around them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question to ask yourself is: What is the material impact you\u2019re making offline?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The difference between activists and organizers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In their book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/1922-let-this-radicalize-you\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let This Radicalize You<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, abolitionist organizers Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba make an important distinction between those who do activism and those who are organizers. Activism, they say, \u201cencompasses all the ways we show up for justice.\u201d It can look like fundraising, attending marches or rallies, or bringing awareness to an issue on social media, but it all can be done alone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizing is done with others, in which we are accountable to each other, and includes \u201crelationship building and power analysis,\u201d Hayes and Kaba write. Organizing is a specific, strategic methodology in service of movement building, as opposed to simply showing up for the movement. Though everyone does it differently, organizing can&#8217;t be done in a silo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>During this time in our history where everyone and anyone is an activist, we desperately need more organizers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re in a period of social justice awareness that\u2019s reached critical mass \u2013 whether it be the onslaught of legislative and cultural attacks against trans people, climate change and its impending catastrophic effects across the globe, homelessness, food insecurity, or a free Palestine. We\u2019re thoroughly aware of all the bad in the world, but it\u2019s time to get to work and create some good in the world. We need more organizers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s my worldview that everyone, even you reading this, has a responsibility to give back to the world, and those with larger platforms and access to resources must be equitable in how they give back, beyond social media. You don\u2019t have to work at a nonprofit organization or produce full-scale protests in order to be an organizer. It\u2019s about figuring out the area of the world you\u2019re motivated to change, finding the right people, and building something with them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Organizing is a specific, strategic methodology in service of movement building, as opposed to simply showing up for the movement. Though everyone does it differently, organizing can't be done in a silo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><h3><strong>Social Media is the beginning, not the end of the work.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a rise in social media advocacy, many are using platforms like Instagram to share aesthetically pleasing infographics and videos that, arguably, do more to promote their platform than to create tangible impacts on the affected communities. Consequently, many people feel that sharing those posts to bring awareness is sufficient engagement with social justice. While social media is an incredibly effective and powerful tool, you can take it a step further through digital organizing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDigital organizing\u201d is more than posting on social. The overarching goal of digital organizing is to move people to take action in the real world and make deeper engagements with a long-term campaign. Digital organizing can be used to lead people to sign a petition, or donate money, and ultimately, get someone to show up, rally, protest, or another in-person event. It often involves mass DMing, distributing folders with assets\/infographics informing about your cause, and working at the interpersonal level. I\u2019ve used digital organizing to get <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bu6KdVTnD0X\/?img_index=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">people to pack courts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and have seen creative digital actions: like when queer men change their profile photo on Grindr to an image about a protest, flooding the grid with information on where to join.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>If your social media accounts were to disappear tomorrow, what impact could you have?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finding your &#8220;political home&#8221; should be a priority for any organizer. A political home is a place where you are <em>in community<\/em> with other organizers who push you to think deeper, hold you accountable to your politics and actions, and function as a hub for organizing and experimentation in advocacy. It can look like providing access to a space to host regular community meetings, launching a mutual aid fund, or just incentivizing a collective of friends with similar values to commit to working together regularly to make a difference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Organizing is about building movements. What have you built?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Activism is often a one-off engagement, whereas organizing is about building public power. Usually, people think of power as something only available to people with money or in positions of authority over others, like in the government, with institutions like school systems. While these are traditional forms of power, organizing is about building people power that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/justice\/interrupting-politicians-is-an-essential-part-of-queer-activism-history\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pushes, agitates, or disrupts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> those with traditional power over others. Though it&#8217;s easier said than done, you can use dedicated work and outreach to amass thousands, or even millions of people to demand change.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With a rise in social media advocacy, many are using platforms like Instagram to share aesthetically pleasing infographics and videos that, arguably, do more to promote their platform than to create tangible impacts on the affected communities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><h3><b>Organizing is about sustaining movement work\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campaigns to change issues, legislation, or bring justice to people impacted by injustice can be a typically long-term, multi-year project that requires strategy, power analysis, identifying key targets, and a lot of tenacity. For example, I work with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justicecommittee.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice Committee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an organization working to end police and racialized violence in New York City. Justice Committee supports families with loved ones killed by the NYPD by guiding them through the complicated process of holding police officers accountable. More often than not, these campaigns can take upwards of 5-6 years and require on-the-ground advocacy and sustained digital comms plans that keep the story in the forefront of people\u2019s minds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For electoral politics, identifying legislation to enact or change means organizing lobby days and sustaining relationships with elected officials, allies, and politicians whose minds need changing. Organizing is a long-term, often lifelong project in which we will be part of many campaigns to make a difference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Who are you accountable to?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My friend, organizer, and author <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/culture\/raquel-willis-cover-interview-the-risk-it-takes-to-bloom\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raquel Willis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> often speaks about her \u201caccountability circle\u201d: people that check in on her, and who she can tap when she\u2019s unsure if she\u2019s moving in the right ways. Every organizer should have a group of people who aren\u2019t afraid to send you that text or give you a call when you start to stray. In addition to that group of people who hold you accountable, you must also work laterally with the communities you aim to advocate for. Whose life will be made better by your organizing? And how can you get those people in the room with you when you create the strategy? We must always keep the people at the center of our organizing to keep us true to our politics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The breakdown between \u201cactivists\u201d and \u201corganizers&#8221; for our justice column LET\u2019S MAKE SOME GOOD IN THE WORLD WORDS BY ELIEL CRUZ PHOTOGRAPHY BY\u00a0Claude TRUONG-NGOC\u00a0(Ctruongngoc) Sometime in the 2000s, many became\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":362320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,19568,531],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Everyone&#039;s an \u201cactivist.\u201d We need more organizers.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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