RESOURCES

 

A WORD DOC FULL OF REFLECTION PROMPTS DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN OUR RESISTANCE PRACTICES.

 

LINKS TO BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS

Click through to explore beautiful poetry and stories from incredible writers, thinkers and makers.

we all lead back to rivers and flow into the sea

Ellen Van Neerven

stop, my girl. If you’re hurting, cry. you must show your feelings so that others know

Layli Longsoldier

conqueres come conquerers go the ocean remains mother only to her children

Epeli Hau’Ofa

I can sense that it is all connected and that the tissue is love

Adrienne Maree Brown

I am one of my desert’s pleasures

Natalie DIaz

We care about each other so militantly, with such softness, that we exhaust ourselves, and then record, in the resonance of our slightly opened mouths, the sound of that, in the absence of the enemy that we keep making.

Fred Moten

The lungs are the seat of grief, of the breath of mourning and lament

Rupa Marya

We don't have to imagine a dystopia, we live in one — day after day after day

Claire G Coleman

what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself

James Baldwin

Co Culture is committed to centring and serving communities who are marginalised in the colonial system.

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Check out these education resources and community projects >

  • Gary Foley’s THE KOORI HISTORY WEBSITE is everything you wish you had learnt in school about history, clips, essays, archives and important stories of some of the Heroes of the Aboriginal Resistance.

  • Matt and Sarah Brown’s project SHE IS NOT YOUR REHAB is an incredible initiative encouraging courageous conversations, loving connection and community healing.

  • THE THOUSAND LETTERS REPORT is a community-led research initiative in Aotearoa that gives insight into suicide prevention and support.

  • AOTEAROA LIBERATION LEAGUE offer excellent resources and education on ‘decolonial justice for Papatūānuku and all her children’.

  • The One Billion Stars project was founded by Maryann Talia Pau, a Samoan – Australian weaving artist, and her husband Mark Yettica-Paulson, an Indigenous leader and cross-cultural specialist and is a global movement to end violence through art.

WRITING

 
 

The following articles / essays are currently unpublished. Please email to request a copy if you’re interested in reading.

Healing in/from the Colony

A literature review on oppression, impacts, anti-oppressive approaches in mental health and challenges and opportunities in Gestalt Therapy.

Working with whiteness as a clinical issue

An integrated approach to supporting clients recovering from whiteness processes.

F%$k the system (not my nervous system)

Holistic, relational, trauma-informed approaches to anti-oppressive work.