Pleasure activism:  “the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy, satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusions, and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy” - adrienne maree brown 

Commons:  The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth…. Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people (communities, user groups) manage for individual and collective benefit.

Collective action: Action taken together by a group of people to achieve their shared goal

Fractals: “never ending pattern…infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop.” - adrienne maree brown

 Grassroots organization: an organization that uses self-organized collective action by people within a community or region to enact change at the local, regional, national or international levels. These organizations  handle  community issues by attacking the problem at its source. 

Situated knowledge: "The idea of situated knowledge is that in many cases knowers must rely on others differently situated from themselves in order to attain certain forms of knowledge. If perspectives differ along the lines of social location, then one cannot necessarily trust one's own perspective as epistemically reliable in a particular area of knowledge and one will need to interact with others differently socially located in order to increase the reliability of one's knowing" - (Professor) Heidi Grasswick 2006  

Horizontal networks of connection: communication, strategy and collaboration that is non-hierarchical (as opposed to vertical networks predicated on hierarchy), which situated peoples knowledge in time and place while working across difference.

Settler:  Someone who is able to live on the land they do because of settler colonialism. 

Radical hope:  hope that gives people new “resources to deal with the forces that affect their lives” and acknowledges that the “painful path is the hopeful path," radical hope needs to be combined with a radical imagination about the future we desire.  Hope alone is short-lived unless coupled with desire for “future worlds that are not depressing but instead so enticing that they might lead us to yearn for a new way of being.” Desire is an essential affect for building resilience. What’s better than hope? Empowerment to work toward a way of being for which you yearn.