I think often now of Tara Raghuveer speaking about her experience organizing the KC Tenants Union:

“It feels so electric to be in a tenant meeting where people feel powerful for the first time ever. I think about so many instances of tenants saying to me: ‘I have never felt power in my body before this moment, before taking this collective action w

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A volunteer finds their onboarding confusing and makes a handbook so others can more easily navigate their own journeys.

An attendee sees a bottleneck happening at the event’s doors and jumps in to help folks navigate.

An artist wants to collaborate with others who share their identity or lived experience and curates a showcase of bands or visual art... See more

Strong community spaces create a chance for everybody to participate beyond simply showing up . They are high agency spaces.

Agency occurs when: the gap between the idea and the realization of the idea is as small as possible.

If we use agency as a prism to assess our daily activities, we might discover that it is not just about having enough information, trying enough toolkits, browsing or scrolling about it; it is about cultivating our own capacity to act.