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Building narrative, knowledge and collective power with and for girls ✨
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Committed to shifting how the world understands and supports girls’ dreams, power, and resistance, we drive our efforts through interconnected strategies for collective action! 📖Generate evidence to centre girls’ power 📢Amplify stories to shift narratives and public discourse ✨Transform strategies and practices 🤝Organise and mobilise resources to build and transform power We drive change through collaborations with funders, policy makers, activists, culture change makers, artists, and practitioners who work with and for girls across the world. By fostering a stronger, more collaborative intergenerational movement of people who believe in the power of girls, we can move beyond silos and build our collective power to better resources and support them. Our commitment to girls and young feminists fuels all of our work. As Jody Myrum, our Founder and Director, describes: “For too long, girls have been forced to resist in the face of oppression, asked to shrink and demand for less. Forced to be silent, forced to be palatable. And yet girls continuously show up, fight, resist, dream and create. We believe in supporting girls’ power, dreams, and resistance because we believe in a world where we all live in safety and freedom. We are guided by a vision of a world that supports girls’ dreams and power – and one where resistance isn’t a prerequisite for existence.” 💜Meet our team, current collaborators and artists in residence: Laura Vergara, Juliana Roman Lozano, Solana Lord-Baptiste, Purity Kagwiria, Ayat Mneina, Dr. Tana Forrest, Kruthika N. S., and Erin Lynn Williams. 🌍Learn more about us, our approach, collaborators across each of our murmurations (initiatives), and resources via link in bio! Illustrated cover with a girl holding a box with different creative materials. The text on the picture says: Interconnected strategies for collective action. by @ourcollectivepractice
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2 years ago
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We are thrilled to celebrate the launch of The Girls’ Power Learning Institute, an accompaniment program for formal power holders on how to meaningfully build, support, and resource girls’ power✨ With the co-sponsorship of Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, @hiltonfoundation , Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund and Elevate Children Funders Group, we held our first in-person workshop in Nairobi the day before the Elevate Children Funder’s Group Annual General Meeting and the Global Early Childhood Funders network’s meeting. This learning and practice space focused on the importance of meaningfully building and resourcing girls’ power to advance children’s rights, protection and broader systemic change. Funders explored how power shows up in the lives of girls, in ways that it regulates girls to the margins of society and excludes them from conversations, priority agendas, and funding, and how this is not the end of the story– building girls’ individual and collective power is a protective force and results in powerful work across sectors and movements. The Institute’s framework on systemic change guided funders on its inherent relationship with power and the importance of centring girls’ leadership, vision, and strategies. We are deeply grateful to our girl and young feminist led partners in Kenya who shared their analysis, reflections, and recommendations during the session - Girl Concern, @rcwg_ke , The Hummingbird Grassroots Centre, @akilidada, Young Women’s Leadership Institute, @adafkenya. And to Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, the @hiltonfoundationp, and Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund for sharing their insight and reflections on their journey and commitment to resource girls’ power. Learn more via link in bio! Collage of girl activists on a blue background that has text that says Girls Power Learning Institute. Footer with test that says girls are full of power and a logo that says our collective practice by @ourcollectivepractice
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2 years ago
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✨ Girls have been worldbuilders long before anyone gave them permission. At the recent Dreaming to Worldbuilding event, Nyawira Wahito from @rcwg_ke reflected on how girls are already creating spaces of care, safety and collective power, and invited us to ask whether we are ready to follow their lead. Watch highlights from Nyawira’s reflections in this powerful conversation. 🎥 Does this resonate with you? Keep the momentum going: ✨Read the Dreaming & Worldbuilding report:ourcollectivepractice.org/worldbuilding ✨ Learn about the Dream & Power Fund to see how these principles are being put into practice: ourcollectivepractice.org/dream-and-power-fund by @ourcollectivepractice
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Girls’ dreams seed our world’s transformation. As Ayleen Mayte Diaz Rivera ( @ayleen.mayte ), illustrator of Dreaming & Worldbuilding, reflects: girls’ and young feminists’ dreams are not separate from change; they are where new worlds are imagined and brought to life. Through the ways they imagine, create, play, question, and resist, girls and young feminists are already transforming the present. Ayleen’s illustrations give shape and color to this transformative power throughout the publication. We are deeply grateful for her artwork, which helps us see and feel the worlds girls and young feminists are already dreaming and building. Read more in Dreaming & Worldbuilding: Insights, Strategies, and Calls to Action Grounded in the Power of Girls and Young Feminists. — The Dreaming & Worldbuilding Game was co-created by Kruthika N.S. ( @theworkplacedoodler ) during her art residency with Our Collective Practice, in deep collaboration with girls and young feminists from across the world. by @ourcollectivepractice
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12 days ago
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In honor of World Sexual and Reproductive Health Month, NPQ highlights its newest publication, “Why Philanthropy Must Invest in Narrative Power to End Gender Violence.” According to the World Health Organization, “most of the life-threatening sexual and reproductive health challenges are preventable”—including violence. For any social change, our ability to prevent a problem is heavily influenced by whether we can see the root causes of the issue we hope to address. In this piece, Natalie A. Collier, Maheen Kaleem, and Jody Myrum share why narrative power is foundational to our collective understanding of gender-based violence and why it should be treated as essential public infrastructure. “If philanthropy is serious about ending gender-based violence, it must treat narrative infrastructure as essential public infrastructure—investing in the storytellers, cultural workers, researchers, community leaders and movements actively challenging the narratives that make violence seem inevitable.” 🔗 in bio by @ourcollectivepractice
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#Resource 📖 Why Philanthropy Must Invest in Narrative Power to End Gender Violence. This article, featured by @npquarterly, explores why it is essential to invest in narrative power to transform the stories and ideas that shape how we understand gender-based violence and what we believe it will take to end it. Read the piece to learn more about: ✨ How dominant narratives can obscure systemic failures 🌱 Why changing the story is part of changing the conditions that allow violence to continue 💫 What it means to build narrative power over time 🔥 Why philanthropy must invest in narrative infrastructure as essential public infrastructure 🔗 Read the article: https://dub.sh/narrativeGBV - LINK IN BIO Written by Natalie A. Collier from @luvblkgrls, Maheen Kaleem from @g4gc_org, and Jody Myrum from @ourcollectivepractice Illustration by @vidushiy #endgbv by @ourcollectivepractice
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Narrative Revolution Fellowship @ourcollectivepractice has been such a beautiful and peaceful space for me over the past year. We met online every month, shared our work, talked, listened, learned from each other, and had so many wonderful online workshops together. 🌹♥️ I feel incredibly lucky to have met such inspiring and resilient artists and activists from all around the world. Thank you to every participant for sharing your stories, your work, your thoughts, and your beautiful energy. I’m so happy our paths crossed. ✨🦋 And a very special thank you to Dani @daniprisacariu and Lau for creating and holding this space with so much care. I’m truly grateful for everything you put into this program and for making it feel so warm, generous, and safe. 🩵🫧🧜🏻‍♀️ Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for the presentation, and to everyone who has been part of this journey in any way. 🩵 I’m leaving this year with so many memories, new connections, and a lot of love. 🤍 taken in Rose Garden by @ourcollectivepractice
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What happens when we take girls’ dreams seriously? As publication co-writer “Maja” Rodriguez Acha reminds us, girls’ and young feminists’ dreams are where more just, free, and compassionate worlds are imagined and brought to life. Through the ways they create, play, question, and resist, they are already transforming the present and turning their visions into reality. Maja’s words capture a central insight of Dreaming & Worldbuilding: imagination is not distant from social change. It is a powerful starting point for building worlds grounded in collective care, dignity, and freedom. Read Dreaming & Worldbuilding: Insights, Strategies, and Calls to Action Grounded in the Power of Girls and Young Feminists to explore more. 🔗LINK IN BIO The Worldbuilding Game was co-created by Kruthika N.S. (@theworkplacedoodler) during her art residency with Our Collective Practice, in deep collaboration with girls and young feminists from across the world. Illustrations by @ayleen.mayte by @ourcollectivepractice
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19 days ago
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Join the Narrative Revolution next week! In these times, creativity is essential to imagining and building new, more just worlds. 📅 September 24, 2026 ⏰ 2-3:00 pm UTC 🌐 English, Spanish, and Turkish interpretation 🎟️RSVP: bit.ly/NarrativeRev LINK IN BIO. This community event will showcase the Narrative Revolutions Fellows’ transformative work and celebrate what becomes possible when the dreams, creativity, power, and resistance of girls and young feminists are meaningfully supported. Join Fellows: 📱 @ainhsaifulnizam - Malaysia 📚 @radiate_now - India ✍️ @lagordanosecalla - Nicaragua 🎧 @wordsmith_254 - Kenya 🖍️ @merionlomari - Argentina 🖼️ @okyanuscagricamci - Turkey 📝 @ceresque - Moldova 🎨 @raecrowart - USA 🎬 @rin.o.i - Romania Led by Our Collective Practice and co-sponsored by @readtobloom, Global Narrative Hive and @g4gc_org by @ourcollectivepractice
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#Resource 📖 Dreaming Is a Political Act: How Imagination Shapes What Becomes Possible | A look at why the social impact sector must invest in the imagination, dreams, and worldbuilding practices of young girls and young feminists. Dreaming is a vital political practice that allows us to imagine beyond injustice and begin building new worlds. Drawing on research and experiences with girls and young feminists across multiple countries, this new article featured in @npquarterly explores how collective imagination can challenge oppressive systems, cultivate hope, and create pathways towards justice, dignity, and collective liberation. Explore the piece to learn more about: ✨ Dreaming and imagination as forms of power and resistance 🌱 Girls and young feminists as architects of new possibilities 💫 Worldbuilding as a practice rooted in care, joy, rest, and collective creation 🔥 How funders and movement partners can resource imagination for worldbuilding 🔗 Read the article: dub.sh/dreamingnpq LINK IN BIO. Written by Juliana Roman Lozano, Asha Athman, Nyawira Wahito, Laura V, Jody Myrum, and Akinyi Rose. Featuring artwork by @vidushiy by @ourcollectivepractice
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✨ What changes when we recognise girls and young feminists not as the future, but as leaders of our current moment? Reflecting on the Dreaming and Worldbuilding Game in Argentina, Juliana Román Lozano reminds us that girls and young feminists are already organising, thinking, creating, and leading. Supporting their processes, then, is not symbolic. It is a political and strategic choice — one that asks us to shift how power and resources move. As Juliana writes, this means financing without controlling, listening without correcting, and accompanying without imposing. It means trusting the visions, strategies, and leadership that girls and young feminists are already bringing into the world. ✨ Read more in Dreaming & Worldbuilding: Insights, Strategies, and Calls to Action Grounded in the Power of Girls and Young Feminists. --- Acknowledgments: The Dreaming & Worldbuilding game was co-created by Kruthika N.S. ( @theworkplacedoodler ) during her art residency with Our Collective Practice, in deep collaboration with girls and young feminists from across the world. Illustrations by @ayleen.mayte by @ourcollectivepractice
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What does it take to turn dreaming into worldbuilding? ✨ Our Dreaming & Worldbuilding report does more than document the futures girls and young feminists are imagining. It asks all of us - especially funders, partners, and resource stewards - to consider what needs to change in the way we support those futures. These calls invite us to move beyond short-term projects and predetermined outcomes, and towards ways of resourcing that make room for experimentation, wellbeing, learning, collaboration, and long-term transformation. Swipe through the 7 calls to action, and explore the publication! 🔗 Read at ourcollectivepractice.org/worldbuilding Link in bio. --- Acknowledgments: The Dreaming & Worldbuilding game was co-created by Kruthika N.S. ( @theworkplacedoodler ) during her art residency with Our Collective Practice, in deep collaboration with girls and young feminists from across the world. Illustrations by @ayleen.mayte by @ourcollectivepractice
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