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
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