ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates on transformative community organizing practice engaging with identity politics as a way to build solidarity on a pathway to liberation. It articulates key concepts, such as intersectionality, identity politics, microaggressions, internalized oppression, and horizontal hostility and introduces a growth-oriented social justice model. In this model, recentering and allyship are viewed as developmental and holarchical journeys of growing antioppressive consciousness and skill-building. The chapter engages with case studies of intersectional organizing, including organizing being done on college campuses and around issues of reproductive justice. The chapter concludes with attention to healing justice as a crucial pathway to attend to the trauma and oppression and forge a culturally based whole self-approach to this kind of change work.
