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Quick Links – How Are You Feeling Now?
Hopeless – try Chapter 3 or Chapter 4
Humiliated – try Chapter 2
Ineffective – try Chapter 1
Inefficient – try Chapter 6
Indebted – try Chapter 2
Insignificant – try Chapter 4
Irritated – try Chapter 5
Isolated – try Chapter 2
Numb – try Chapter 4
Obligated – try Chapter 3
Overwhelmed – try Chapter 1 or Chapter 6
Perplexed – try Chapter 1
Powerless – try Chapter 4
Regretful – try Chapter 2
Resentment – try Chapter 5
Rushed – try Chapter 1
Scattered – try Chapter 1
Self-Disappointment – try Chapter 3
Stagnant – try Chapter 2
Touched-Out – try Chapter 4
Trapped – try Chapter 5
Unacknowledged – try Chapter 5
Unappreciated – try Chapter 5
Worthless – try Chapter 2
Quick Links – How Would You Like To Feel?
Accomplished – try Chapter 4
Belonging – try Chapter 2
Confident – try Chapter 4
Connected – try Chapter 2
Curious – try Chapter 3
Determined – try Chapter 3
Empowered – try Chapter 4
Equipped – try Chapter 4
Energized – try Chapter 3
Expansive – try Chapter 5
Focused – try Chapter 1
Generous – try Chapter 5
Hopeful – try Chapter 2
Mindful – try Chapter 2
Motivated – try Chapter 6
Open-Minded – try Chapter 3
Playful – try Chapter 3
Prepared – try Chapter 4
Present – try Chapter 2
Proud – try Chapter 4
Ready – try Chapter 6
Reliable – try Chapter 2
Relieved – try Chapter 1
Resilient – try Chapter 6
Respected – try Chapter 4
Secure – try Chapter 1 or Chapter 5
Supported – try Chapter 5
Tenacious – try Chapter 6
A
Abundance, Burden Of – Chapter 5, Caper 4
Acceptance (of help) – Chapter 5, Caper 4
Accomplice – A person who actively adjusts their behavior to dismantle oppression despite not being directly targeted by it. Chapter 2
Accountability
Action – The process of redistributing or hoarding the resources available to us.
Affinity Spaces – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Agency – Chapter 3, Caper 1
Agility – Chapter 2, Caper 5
AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Aimlessness
Ally (Chapter 2) – Those who like the *idea* of liberation and equality but don’t necessarily take action to make it happen.
Amplification – Increasing the impact of others’ power or actions by contributing resources they don’t have easy access to. Chapter 5, Caper 1
Ancestors – Chapter 6, Caper 4
Apologies – Chapter 4, Caper 4
Appreciation – Chapter 4, Caper 4
April, Cornelius (The Bee Guy) – Chapter 4, Caper 3
Arduous Drudgery – activities that are both agonizing and challenging. Chapter 4, Caper 2
Asking (For Help) – Chapter 5, Caper 5
Assess – Chapter 3, Caper 5
Attending – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Attention – Chapter 3
Authority, Appeal-To – Chapter 4, Caper 3
Awareness – Chapter 2, Caper 1
B
Badassery
Bandwidth – The power, resources, energy, etc. flowing through you at a particular point in time. Chapter 5
Barter – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Bee Guy – Chapter 4, Caper 3
Believing (lived experience) – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Beneficiaries – Chapter 3
Benefits (Of Activism) – Chapter 1, Caper 2
Boggs, Grace Lee – Chapter 4, Caper 3
Bootstraps – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Boundaries
Brevity – Chapter 6, Caper 1
Broken Banana Tantrums – Chapter 1, Caper 4
Buffer Space – Chapter 5, Caper 2
Busywork – Chapter 4, Caper 1
Bystander Intervention – Chapter 6, Caper 3
C
Calamity, Catastrophic – Setbacks – Chapter 3, Caper 3
Can’t vs. Won’t – Chapter 4, Caper 4
Capacity
Centering
Circumstances – A solid barrier that you can’t simply get around, forcing you to pivot to a different objective. Chapter 3, Caper 3
Cliff, Farewell
Closure
Collaboration
Collaborator – Those who work together in initiatives or collectives toward shared goals.
Come Back To Care – Chapter 1, Caper 2
Communication
Competition – Chapter 2, Caper 4
Conditions
Consent – Chapter 1, Caper 4
Conspirator -A self-advocate who understand how their oppression is connected to yours and work alongside you toward shared liberation. Chapter 2, Caper 4
Consumption, Passive – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Convergence – Chapter 3, Caper 4
Courage
Cowardice – Chapter 6, Caper 3
Curiosity – Chapter 6, Caper 2
Currency – The resources available to you (power, money, time, etc.
D
Danger Zone – Chapter 3, Caper 1
Data – Chapter 6, Caper 4
Delight – Chapter 4, Caper 2
Dependence (on others) – Chapter 5, Caper 4
Derailment
Decision – Chapter 3, Caper 5
Detours – Chapter 1, Caper 3
Differentiation
Difficult, Becoming – Chapter 4, Caper 4
Disaster – Setbacks – Chapter 3, Caper 3
Discipline – Chapter 4, Caper 4
Discomfort
Distraction
Disruption
Ditches, Dying In (And Then Combusting Into Fire) – Chapter 5, Caper 4
Drudgery – Chapter 4, Caper 2
E
Ease – Chapter 4, Caper 2
Effort – The joy and energy we put into action. Chapter 4, Caper 2
Ego – Chapter 5, Caper 2
Endurance – Chapter 6, Caper 2
Engagement – Chapter 2, Caper 2
Endings – Chapter 3, Caper 4
Entitlement – Chapter 6, Caper 2
Envy – Chapter 2, Caper 4
Emergencies – Chapter 5, Caper 2
Exertion – Chapter 4, Caper 2
Expansions, Tiny – Chapter 4, Caper 5
Experiment Cycle – Chapter 3, Caper 5
Expertise – Chapter 4, Caper 3
F
Failure
Fear
Fixers – Chapter 4, Caper 3
Focus – Chapter 2, Caper 2
FOMO
Force Multiplier – Chapter 2, Caper 1
Futures – Chapter 3, Caper 2
G
Gatekeeping – Chapter 4, Caper 3
Generosity – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Gift Economy – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Gifting – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Givers/Takers – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Glitter Blade V: Emotional Throat-Punch – Chapter 3, Caper 3
Goals – Chapter 3, Caper 2
Growth
Growth Zone
Guilt – Chapter 1, Caper 3
H
Habit Stacking – Chapter 6, Caper 2
Help, Asking For – Chapter 5, Caper 5
Heroics
History – Chapter 3, Caper 1
Honesty
Humility – Chapter 5, Caper 5
Hyper-Individualism – Chapter 2, Caper 4
I
Identity Work – Chapter 3, Caper 1
Incentives – Chapter 6, Caper 3
Incubator, Winter – Chapter 3, Caper 1
Indigenous Peoples Day – Chapter 2, Caper 2
In-Fighting – Chapter 2, Caper 4
Inflexibility – Chapter 4, Caper 4
Inspiration – Chapter 6, Caper 2
Integrity
Interdependence – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Initiative – Chapter 3
J
Joy – Chapter 6, Caper 3
Joyous Exertion – Activities that are both enjoyable and delightfully challenging. Chapter 4, Caper 2
K
Knowledge – Chapter 6, Caper 5
L
Labor, Invisible – Chapter 5, Caper 2
Lanes (Finding Your) – Chapter 3, Caper 5
Launch – Chapter 6
Leisurely Pastimes – Activities that are both enjoyable and easy. Chapter 4, Caper 2
Liars, Tools & Jerks – Chapter 1, Caper 5
Limits – Chapter 4, Caper 5
Listening – Chapter 2, Caper 3
M
Manic Pixie Dream Girl – Chapter 5, Caper 5
Manners – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Martyrdom – Chapter 1, Caper 2
Mastery – Chapter 3, Caper 1
Metastasizing – Chapter 4, Caper 1
Metrics – Chapter 6, Caper 4
Motivation
Moxie – Chapter 4, Caper 4
Multitasking – Chapter 5, Caper 2
Murmurations – Chapter 2, Caper 1
O
Obligation – Chapter 1, Caper 3
Objectives – Chapter 6, Caper 5
Obstacles – A challenge you can move around or work through. Chapter 3, Caper 3
One Right Way – Chapter 6, Caper 3
Opportunities, Missed – Chapter 3, Caper 5
Opportunities, Urgent – Chapter 5, Caper 2
Orchestrating – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Organizers – Chapter 3
Othering – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Outcomes
P
Pacing
Parasite, Brain – Chapter 3, Caper 1
Parasocial Relationships – Chapter 2, Caper 2
Participation, Collaborative – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Passive Consumption – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Patterns – Chapter 6, Caper 4
Perks & Benefits (Of Activism) – Chapter 1, Caper 2
Perfectionism – Chapter 6, Caper 3
Personality (Difficult)
Place (your location in) – Chapter 3
Planning
Play – Chapter 4, Caper 2
Pivot – Reassessing our objectives and potentially switching to an entirely different goal.
Pod-Building – Chapter 1, Caper 4
Power – Your potential to change policy and culture. Chapter 4, Caper 4
Post / Pre- Mortem
Post-Traumatic Growth – A process of reclaiming a sense of control and using what we’ve learned after a traumatic situation to help ourselves and others. Chapter 1, Caper 3
Porous Boundaries – Chapter 3, Caper 1
Prasad, Kerry – Chapter 2, Caper 2
Praxis
Present (staying in) – Chapter 3
Privilege – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Process – Chapter 4
Procrastination – Chapter 1, Caper 4
Production – Chapter 4, Caper 1
Purposeful – Chapter 4, Caper 1
Puttering
R
Receiving
Reciprocity
Regeneration
Regimens – Chapter 4, Caper 5
Relationships
Report – Chapter 3, Caper 5
Reputation – Chapter 2, Caper 4
Requirements – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Research – Chapter 3, Caper 5
Resentment – Chapter 1, Caper 2
Reservoir – Chapter 5, Caper 1
Resistance – That which slows or opposes the flow of power or resources.
Responsibilities – Chapter 2, Caper 5
Responsive – Chapter 2, Caper 5
Restoration – Chapter 4, Caper 1
Results
Review – Chapter 3, Caper 5
Revolutions – Chapter 6, Caper 5
Risk
Rituals – Chapter 4, Caper 5
Rock The Boat – Chapter 1, Caper 5
Roles – Chapter 2, Caper 5
Routines – Chapter 6, Caper 2
Ruckus
S
Safety Zone – Chapter 4, Caper 1
Saviorism
Scope Creep – Chapter 6, Caper 1
Self-Advocate (Chapter 2) – Those working toward self-liberation to change policies that affect themselves and communities they belong to.
Self-Interest – Chapter 1, Caper 2
Selfishness – Chapter 1, Caper 2
Self-Worth – Chapter 4
Sequencing – Chapter 6, Caper 1
Setbacks – Chapter 3, Caper 3
Scarcity – Chapter 2, Caper 4
Single-Tasking – Chapter 5, Caper 2
Siphon (Bandwidth) – Chapter 5, Caper 2
Skills – Chapter 4, Caper 3
Social Media – Chapter 2, Caper 1
Solomon, Elizabeth – Chapter 2, Caper 2
Soupbag & Celery – Chapter 6, Caper 1
Specificity – Chapter 6, Caper 1
Spontaneous – Chapter 6
Spiral Convergence – Chapter 3, Caper 4
Spiral Praxis
Stamina – Chapter 4, Caper 2
Starlings – Chapter 2, Caper 1
Sunsetting – Chapter 3, Caper 4
Sustainability – Chapter 4, Caper 2
Swerve – Maintaining our original objective, but adjusting the methods or practices we use to get there.
T
Takers / Givers – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Teaming Up – Chapter 2, Caper 4
Tedious Drudgery – activities that are agonizing but easy. Chapter 4, Caper 2
Tenacity – Chapter 6, Caper 2
Tentacles, Brain – Chapter 1, Caper 3
Time (your location within) – Chapter 3
To-Don’ts – Chapter 4, Caper 4
Tracking – Chapter 6, Caper 4
Trade – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Transactionalism – Chapter 5, Caper 3
Transformative Justice – Chapter 1, Caper 4
Transparency, Radical
Trauma – an emotional response to an event (or series of events) where we experienced harm but couldn’t escape, resolve, or process it. Chapter 1, Caper 3
Trauma Mastery – An attempt to re-create the conditions of traumatic situations, in the hopes that we can reclaim our agency this time around. Chapter 1, Caper 3.
Triumvirate of Mobilization (ToM) – Chapter 6, Caper 5
Trust
Trickle Down – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Trigger Points – Chapter 4, Caper 4
Trust – Chapter 1, Caper 4
V
Validation (Internal / External) – Chapter 4
Values (Core)
Victims – Chapter 2, Caper 3
Visioning – Chapter 3, Caper 2
Vulnerability
W
Wayfinding – Chapter 3, Caper 5
Weirdness – Chapter 4, Caper 3
Window of Tolerance – Chapter 3, Caper 1
Wizardry – Chapter 4, Caper 3
Won’t vs. Can’t – Chapter 4, Caper 4
Work
Worst-Case Scenario – Chapter 5, Caper 4
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