🔮 What is a marble?

In my world, a marble is a metaphorical container for a note that I want to share and shape with you. It can be a sketchy idea, an insight, a piece of knowledge, or a question that I consider valuable for my life's ongoing dialogue.

These marbles are never perfect and always a snapshot of a given moment. So, please, feel free to add your perspective at the ⬇️ bottom of the page. I try to follow the 🔮 principles for media movement building.

Read more about my intentions in 🔮 this marble.

In the past, I didn't have a way to share ideas or insights with others. This marbles website is the manifestation of my desire to share intentionally with the world. If you want to do it too, let me know. I can help you.

This note was started on December 12, 2023

Movement building principles for media creation

The podcasters Damon Williams and Daniel Kissinger created a list of emancipatory media principles. They define media as any medium that connects people, ideally to humanize each other, reflect, and build movement. In their work, they seek to humanize subject-to-subject conversation.

They seek to create media to enable activation, education, and archiving.

Their practice of media creation is aligned with the following principles followed by the seventh principle inspired by their overarching conversation:

  1. Operate without being beholden to traditional institutions
  2. Acknowledge and create within contradiction (within you or your story)
  3. Name people and organizations that are already doing the work.
  4. Direct resources that are not focused on productivity to your community.
  5. Let your actions be guided by ground work and relationships rather than access to power.
  6. Attempt to account for colonial power structures & implications in ourselves, dialogue, and the work we do.
  7. Share which problems are important through the lens of the organizations doing the work.

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