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Luminary Brain Trust by Raising Luminaries
Collaborator Laboratory
2026 Collab Lab Project
Luminary Braintrust Transition
In the spirit of interdependence, let's figure out how to keep our community running. While I'm on a restricted work visa, I won't be able to create, fund, or facilitate Raising Luminaries resources or workshops. So I need your help deciding how to prepare things before I go.
Connect With Community
Open discussions and accountability groups for Luminary Braintrust members
2022 - Present
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.
2025 - PRESENT
Ignition Calls
Ignition Call Support Sessions give you focused support to talk through parenting and advocacy challenges that have got you stuck.
2020 - PRESENT
Micro-Rebellions
A habit-setting support group for over-worked caregivers to practice tiny acts of resistance without crashing & burning.
Resources For Kids
Books for Littles booklists, activities, discussion guides and more to open discussions about social justice with kids.
2022 - 2025 ARCHIVE
Family Action Toolkits
Storybooks, discussion guides & reflection activities for kyriarchy-smashing kids.
2023-2024 ARCHIVE
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 Collections
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
Partnerships & Collaborations
Workshops and resources created in collaboration with partner organizations and creators.
2024-2025
Oh Shit? What Now?
A choose-your-own-adventure starter map for scared parents learning how to resist threats to our communities.
2024 Archived
Parenting Through Uncertainty
How to keep showing up for your kids and community - even as the world falls apart. Co-hosted by Raising Luminaries & Come Back To Care
2021 ARCHIVE
Brave Space Storytime
How incorporate trauma-informed practices into story time with kids
2021 ARCHIVE
4 Ways to Fight Ableism With Kids Books
Workshop to discuss disability justice with young children.
2023 ARCHIVED
Healing Generational Trauma With A Somatic Abolitionist
Teaming up with Nat Vikitsreth of Come Back To Care to collect our marbles as we parent through impending doom.
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
2020 Archived
Family Summer 4 Black Lives
Collaborative social-distancing initiative to get families fighting anti-Black racism
2020 Archived
Student Ignition Society
Education activists modeling progressive social change in early childhood education throughout the US.
2020 Archived
Agnostic Devotionals For Parents
A 5-Day secular devotional series in collaboration with the LGBTQ+ Our Bible creators
2016 - 2020 Archived
Author Spotlights
Series of articles on authors creating coruageous stories that fill an enormous gap in representation
2020 Archived
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
Collaborative Workshops
Interactive workshops shaped by participants
Challenge-Based Explorations
Exploring transformative responses and opportunities based on member challenges.
2022 - Present
Busy Parent's Guide To Getting Sh*t Done
Workshop refresher on getting started and keeping going LBT members get free access each spring, but pre-registration is required.
2020 Archived
How To Read Problematic Books
A standalone workshop for parents on how to handle problematic books for storytime.
2023 Archive
Disrupting Generational Trauma
Collecting our own baggage before we pass it on to our kids
2024 ARCHIVE
Trickster Resistance Lab
Finding clever ways to resist and care for each other when our rights are under attack
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.
2020-2022 Archived
Parenting Is Praxis
Open discussion on how we're normalizing kind and courageous action through our own behavior and interactions with our kids.
2020-2022 Archived
Initiatives In Action
Open discussion sharing what we're working on and how we're progressing. Now evolved into the Monthly Quick Actions & Collab Lab
2019-2022 Archived
Weekly Open Thread
Discussion series hosted on the now-archived LBT Facebook group, which has since evolved into the Failure Party, Little Wins, Collab Lab, and Winter Incubator
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.
Article Series
I just needed to infodump
2021-2022 ARCHIVE
Raising Luminaries Podcast
I tried to do a podcast and ended up just running out of breath and giggling a lot.
2018 Archived
Smashing Wealth Inequality
Article series on strategies & kids books to smash wealth inequality in a single generation.
2024 ARCHIVE
Do-Gooder's Guide To Sabotage
A simple guide to destroying everything and everyone you care about.
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