Dear Rad Ops – Why Rad Ops?

In a time where social justice organizations are under attack, we bring you Dear Rad Ops, a mini series advice vlog about live questions on the minds of movement operations workers.

In this introductory episode, co-hosts Yashna Maya Padamsee and Sha Grogan-Brown discuss their own Rad Ops movement operations experience, and the lineages they draw from in their work to run liberatory organizations in an unjust world. 

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Discussion questions to take to your team

• What lineages do you draw from in your operations work?
  • Who is a figure who you see as a political and/or operations ancestor? 
  • What is an event in history that you see as a pivotal moment of movement operations? Feel free to reach for the well-known figures and events, or (even better) the lesser known! 
• How has your identity and your relationship to Operations work changed over time?
  • When and where did you get politicized? What political formations have you been a part of? How have they shaped what you think about operations right now?
• The definition we have for Rad Ops is: Rad Ops is short for Radical Operations, and it’s about running liberatory organizations in an unjust world. Finding the ways that we can be liberatory with each other while we navigate the constraints of racialized gendered capitalism, heteropatriarchy and rising fascism. Do you practice Rad Ops at your org? Where are you already doing this? Where are places at your org that you want to bring a Rad Ops approach? 

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