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Sunset Transition: Pardon our dust!
As we sunset the Luminary Braintrust, we'll be opening many resources for public access, shifting some to the Incubator & Luminator collectives, and mothballing the rest.
The links and features below will probably get buggy or break in the process.
If there is a resource you're interested in, but you're unable to access it, leave a comment below so we can update broken links or prioritize reviving specific resources.
Connect With Community
Discussion and accountability groups for members of Raising Luminaries Collectives.
Radical Caregiver Book Club
The Radical Caregiver Book Club gives us a space to talk about the non-kids-books that don’t fit in our Family Action Toolkits.
Ignition Calls
Ignition Call Support Sessions give you focused support to talk through parenting and advocacy challenges that have got you stuck.
Micro-Rebellions
A habit-setting support group for over-worked caregivers to practice tiny acts of resistance without crashing & burning.
Seasonal Reorientation Collectives
Virtual retreats, social process groups, and guided workshops to gather your marbles & make a deep impact without spreading yourself so thin.
Summer Luminator Collective
Annual 6-week workshop and accountability group for over-extended caregivers and advocates looking to narrow your floodlights into laser-beams of action.
Busy Parent's Guide To Getting Sh*t Done
Self-guided workshop to help you get started and keep going.
Winter Incubator Collective
Annual process group for neurodivergent parents, caregivers, and educators looking to prevent or recover from advocacy and caregiver burnout.
Quick Reference Guides
Luminary Braintrust Resource Library
Compendium of tools, templates, and resources from the 2017-2026 Luminary Braintrust parent activist community.
Oh Shit. What Now?
A choose-your-own-adventure starter map for parents protecting vulnerable community members.
2020 Archived
Agnostic Devotionals For Parents
A 5-Day secular devotional series in collaboration with the LGBTQ+ Our Bible creators
Resources For Kids
Booklists, activities, discussion guides and more to talk about tricky social justice issues with kids.
Social Justice Wordbank
Kid-friendly definitions of social justice terms
Family Action Toolkits
Storybooks, discussion guides & reflection activities for kyriarchy-smashing kids.
Monthly Reading Bingo
Let kids choose their own reading goals with bingo charts that coordinate with our Monthly Family Action Toolkits.
2020-2021 Archived
Luminary Lessons
A year of homeschool curricula orchestrated by the inhabitants of Bumblebee Hollow
2024 - ARCHIVED
Real Kids Review Books
Updating our kidlit analysis reviews so they are now #OwnVoices book reviews by real kids.
2023 - ARCHIVE
Critical Reading Guide For Kids
Investigate the implicit messages in your bookshelf together with this critical reading workbook for kids
2020-2025
Bookshop Theme Lists
The best Books For Littles book recommendations, sorted by age and topic
2014 - 2023 Archived
Book Collections
Curated book collections with short articles on why we need to have hard conversations with kids
Workshop Recordings & Materials
2021 ARCHIVE
4 Ways to Fight Ableism With Kids Books
Workshop to discuss disability justice with young children.
Parenting The Path of Least Resistance
Practicing Transformative Justice in parenting through somatic abolition with Nat Vikitsreth
Brave Space Storytime
How incorporate trauma-informed practices into story time with kids
2023 Archive
Disrupting Generational Trauma
Collecting our own baggage before we pass it on to our kids
2021 ARCHIVE
Single Parenting In A Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape
Calls to action single parents and accomplices who want to build a better world for single parent families
2024 ARCHIVE
Trickster Resistance Lab
Finding clever ways to resist and care for each other when our rights are under attack
2020 Archived
How To Read Problematic Books
A standalone workshop for parents on how to handle problematic books for storytime.
Organize Your Community
Organize a local initiative or community group using pre-made resources and templates.
Family Summer 4 Black Lives
Collaborative social-distancing initiative to get families fighting anti-Black racism
Student Ignition Society
Education activists modeling progressive social change in early childhood education throughout the US.
Wee Chalk The Walk
Music, books & talking points to start talking with kids about racial injustice in partnership with Wee The People, MassArt Center ofr Community Art & Raising Luminaries
Discussion Series
Prompts & questions for self-reflection & group discussion
2020-2025 ARCHIVE
Dismantling Supremacy
Reflection prompts & discussion questions to examine supremacy culture within our communities and ourselves.
Do-Gooder's Guide To Sabotage
A simple guide to destroying everything and everyone you care about.
2019-2020 Archived
Pod-Mapping Discussion
Reflection prompt series on building relationships for collaborative care
2019-2022 Archived
Do Less
Open discussions on the impossible load we're managing to prioritize our time and attention on deep work. Now evolved into the Summer Luminator.
Smashing Wealth Inequality
Article series on strategies & kids books to smash wealth inequality in a single generation.
Raising Luminaries Podcast
I tried to do a podcast and ended up just running out of breath and giggling a lot.
Buggy links & content requests
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