Listen to The Voices of Social Justice Origin Stories (2024-2025)

 Systems of oppression are designed to make us feel helpless, to convince us that the inequities they produce are inevitable, that the conditions are unchangeable, and the stories told about them are often framed in ways that seek to convince us that that’s just the way it is.

They’re designed to limit our understanding of what is real, what is true, and what is possible. And still, people resist. They always have.

Social Justice Origin Stories exist to honor that resistance. Using the power of storytelling and counter-narratives to surface the moments, the experiences, the realizations that move us and remind us of what is and has always been real, true, and possible about the power we have to design more equitable and humanizing systems.

For my final episode of 2025, I brought together the voices of the storytellers whose published sharing have made Social Justice Origin Stories what it is over the past couple of years in the first of an annual series I’m calling “In Community”.

It’s been rough times for those of us who are doing equity and social justice work, but this project has been a sustaining force for me, and I hope it is good company for anyone else who listens. Check out the first entry in the series below, and visit the project website for the main post with links to each storyteller’s respective episode.