The Imaginal Portal Syllabus

Readings might shift around and change, but you will be given plenty of notice. If you are unable to buy these books, I will provide pdfs of the chapters.

Winter: coming home to your body, resting, reconnecting

Radical Dharma
Bringing Our Whole Selves: A theory of Queer Dharma
Remembering Love: An Informal Contemplation on Healing
Radicalizing Dharma Dreams

The Heart Sutra
The Buddha

A plea for magic by Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D

Emergent Strategy
fractals: the relationship between small and large

Freedom Dreams The Black Radical Imagination
Forward by Aja Monet

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
one-three: listen, breathe, remember
seventeen-eighteen: slow down, rest

Poems from Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance

Spring: cultivating hope, connecting with the earth

Healing Justice Lineages
Alchemy
Healing Justice
Our Land as Kin
Beautiful Miracles of Resistance
We

Emergent Strategy
creating more possibilities: how we move towards life

Freedom Dreams The Black Radical Imagination
Introduction
Keeping It (Sur)real, Dreams of the Marvelous

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
five-eight: collaborate, be vulnerable, be present, be fierce

Poems from Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance

Excerpts from Pleasure Activism
adrienne maree brown

Excerpts from Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde

Excerpts from Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
Sherri Mitchell

Excerpts from Assata
Assata Shakur

The Serviceberry, Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer

Summer: visioning a new world, moving into being

Radical Dharma
Why Your Liberation is Bound Up with Mine

Healing Justice Lineages
Storytelling Practice
Beautiful Miracles of Resistance

Emergent Strategy
interdependence and decentralization: who we are and how we share
nonlinear and iterative: the pace and pathways of change

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
twelve: end capitalism
fourteen: surrender
sixteen: stay Black

Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
miraculous epiphanies
are we indeed all Palestinians?
shireen’s passport, the invention of the civilian

Poems from Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance

Fall: building a new world, rooting in community

Healing Justice Lineages
Healing Justice as Political Strategy
Movement Practice

Excerpts from Perfect Victims

Emergent Strategy
spells and practices for emergent strategy

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
nineteen: take care of your blessings
twenty: activities

Poems from Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance