Let's tackle these obstacles together
Luminary Brain Trust
Collaborator Laboratory
New Collab Lab Project
Oh Shit. What Now?
A collaborative workshop & starter map for scared parents learning how to resist threats to our communities
Ongoing Collab Lab Initiatives
2025 - Present
Ignition Calls
Ignition Call Support Sessions give you focused support to talk through parenting and advocacy challenges that have got you stuck.
2022 - Present
Kids Advocacy Activities
Art & exploration activities for rainy days home with the kids
2022 - Present
Resource Library
Central compendium of tools, templates, and resources for parent activists
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-Present
Friday Failure Party
Try hard things, fail spectacularly, get back up. Let's celebrate what we learned! Now evolved into the Friday Failure Padlet.
More From The Collab Lab Archives
Newer LBT members, please ping me if you hit a ‘members-only’ wall. Some of our older content, such as the stuff in our old Facebook group or deactivated Patreon page, is no longer maintained, but I can still give you access to view the archives.
2022 - 2025 ARCHIVE
Family Action Toolkits
Storybooks, discussion guides & reflection activities for kyriarchy-smashing kids.
2024 ARCHIVE
Trickster Resistance Lab
Finding clever ways to resist and care for each other when our rights are under attack
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
2020-2025
Bookshop Collections
The best Books For Littles book recommendations, sorted by age and topic
2020-2025 ARCHIVE
Dismantling Supremacy
Reflection prompts & discussion questions to examine supremacy culture within our communities and ourselves.
2024 ARCHIVE
Do-Gooder's Guide To Sabotage
A simple guide to destroying everything and everyone you care about.
2023 - ARCHIVE
Critical Reading Guide For Kids
Investigate the implicit messages in your bookshelf together with this critical reading workbook for kids
2024 - ARCHIVED
Real Kids Review Books
Updating our kidlit analysis reviews so they are now #OwnVoices book reviews by real kids.
2023 Archive
Disrupting Generational Trauma
Collecting our own baggage before we pass it on to our kids
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.
2022-2024 ARCHIVE
Luminary Braintrust Updates
Weekly/monthly digests with new features & good stuff for Luminary Braintrust members
2021-2022 ARCHIVE
Raising Luminaries Podcast
I tried to do a podcast and ended up just running out of breath and giggling a lot.
2021 ARCHIVE
4 Ways to Fight Ableism With Kids Books
Workshop to discuss disability justice with young children.
2021 ARCHIVE
Brave Space Storytime
How incorporate trauma-informed practices into story time with 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
2017 - 2024 ARCHIVE
Monthly Resource Roundups
Events calendar with curated kids books & conversation starters to channel despair into kid-friendly action. Now evolved into our Family Action Toolkits
2020-2024 ARCHIVED
Office Hours & Live Hangouts
Live virtual gatherings to tackle parenting challenges
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
Initaitives In Action
Open discussion sharing what we're working on and how we're progressing. Now evolved into the Monthly Quick Actions & Collab Lab
2020-2021 Archived
Luminary Lessons
A year of homeschool curricula orchestrated by the inhabitants of Bumblebee Hollow
2020 Archived
Student Ignition Society
Education activists modeling progressive social change in early childhood education throughout the US.
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
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
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.
2019-2020 Archived
Pod-Mapping Discussion
Reflection prompt series on building relationships for collaborative care
2018 Archived
Smashing Wealth Inequality
Article series on strategies & kids books to smash wealth inequality in a single generation.
2016 - 2020 Archived
Author Spotlights
Series of articles on authors creating coruageous stories that fill an enormous gap in representation
2014 - 2023 Archived
Book Collections
Curated book collections with short articles on why we need to have hard conversations with kids
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