Feb
9
2026
The SolidarityIs team at the Building Movement Project is excited to kick off an ongoing blog series: the Solidarity Syllabus. It’s rare these days to have space for intentional learning and reflection. Many of us are navigating multiple crises in our communities, while also navigating a digital era that packages everything as neatly curated “content.”
Our goal is to strike a different balance with this Solidarity Syllabus series. Each syllabus is an invitation to slow down and visit (or re-visit) movement stories, with a few resources and reflection questions to get you started. Unlike a traditional syllabus, there are no due dates or grades here – just a chance to spend some time with movement lessons, elders, ancestors, art, and stories that may offer wisdom and grounding in these uncertain times.
When everything feels urgent, devoting energy to studying movement lessons may not seem like a priority. And yet, choosing to spend 10 minutes with a poem or 20 minutes once a week to work through an essay or book (perhaps with a friend or colleague – virtually or in person or even via voice notes and text messages) can be a sustainable way to deepen our political education. Practicing transformative solidarity requires us to move together, and continuing to develop our individual and collective political analyses – alongside the ongoing work of building relationships and organizing – can make our solidarity practice more possible and more durable.
At the Building Movement Project and Solidarity Is, we think of solidarity as a set of practices grounded in six core principles: Centering, Connections, Commonalities, Co-conspiratorship, Co-liberation and Capacity. For this inaugural post, which coincides with the start of Black History Month, we’ll be focusing on the foundational transformative solidarity practices of Connections and Commonalities.
Read the full blog post on SolidarityIs.org!
