Spark Offerings

Building movements of care via generative leadership. Radical reimagining is possible.

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

A lot people still don’t understand the amount of attention and energy they throw away on things that aren’t aligned with their own values.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

The majority of peer work, with its clear glass ceiling, exposes social services as a poverty industry. Normalize PWLE in senior management, instead of funnelling them into low-wage, non-unionized, short-term training programs & roles. It's inherently exploitative, hierarchical.

[tracy clayton jr the 3rd @brokeymcpoverty]

whats the best pandemic survival advice your therapist has given you recently?

[Sovereign @WarriorKing85]

@brokeymcpoverty “Don’t forget to extend yourself some of the grace that you’ve extended to others”.

[daanis @gindaanis]

Well @Terrilltf and @NoLore and I have gone and done it. Pay Your Rent has become the non-profit Nii'kinaaganaa. There are two streams, Pay Your Rent for donors and Fireweed for Indigenous individuals and organizations.

https://t.co/fZ21UUrMAR

[ArtReach @ArtReachToronto]

✨@planningtoronto is providing free training for resident leaders and grassroots groups!

This workshop will be held on Tuesday, November 23rd from 12:00-2:00pm on Zoom.

Register here: https://t.co/x1vLpZ7XEU

[Spark Offerings @sparkofferings]

Doing this right now. #leadership #praise

[Felicity @FlossAus]

I will repeat this forever. Make yourself an email folder called "Praise." Save ALL the emails people send you complimenting your work, big and small. On the days when it's just really hard and you feel like nothing is going right - that folder will bring you joy!

[Spark Offerings @sparkofferings]

we all have areas of influence and an opportunity to reduce harm.

[Jason To | 杜澤信 @Jason_To]

Every educator who’s applauding Simone Biles for prioritizing mental health better be okay with students doing the same thing about their tests and assignments.

[Spark Offerings @sparkofferings]

So let’s cancel Canada this year and forever. 7/7 #CancelCanadaDay

[Spark Offerings @sparkofferings]

So you wont be celebrating canada day but you'll be headed out to "enjoy the land" a 🧵for settlers 1/

[Spark Offerings @sparkofferings]

When over 30% of incarcerated people in Canada are Indigenous while making up 5% of the population, Reconciliation is prison justice. 6/

[zellie @zellieimani]

Mutual aid is a principle, not one particular act.

Capitalist ideology teaches us that we can attain greater success, gauged as “freedom” & stability, through being individualistic, competitive & exploitative.

Mutual aid challenges this ideology. And that’s why it’s a threat.

[Lisa Richardson MD @RicharLisa]

I learned a new concept in a meeting today called “sanctuary trauma”. It refers to when people enter an institution where they expect healing and instead experience trauma and hurt.

[𝐍𝐚𝐝𝐲𝐚 𝐊𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐬 @_anishinaabekwe]

My really deadly #Indigenous @Spotify playlist is now over 81 hrs and nearing 1700 likes/follows. 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧: If you were to hit play today the entire playlist would finish sometime on #IndigenousPeoplesDay this Monday.

𝗙𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪: https://t.co/nN3WcapikX

[Sara Bafo @SaraSabriye]

The university has agreed to our proposal to incorporate ‘racial trauma’ as a reason to defer essays and exams for Black and PoC students, it will be done through self-certification (moving away from providing so called evidence). 💥💥