This year’s sessions will explore how the ‘social change sector’ can continue to embrace storytelling as a change strategy, without harming those whose stories they are telling.

Building on the New Brave World report, the PopChange Salon ‘explores opportunities for harnessing pop culture for real social change’. This session will feature Nana Bempah of POCC,

Highlighting some of the helpful, and less helpful narratives in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up, their second most-watched film ever.

A post explaining the term MAPA, for those unfamiliar with it. It stands for Most Affected People and Areas, and we’ll be hearing it alot as Loss and Damage rises up the climate agenda.

Initially rejected by publishers over 80 years ago, this analysis of the motivations behind the abolishment of UK slavery is back in print. TLDR: it was for economic, not humanitarian reasons.

Re: narrative development that focuses on contextualising trans issues within the broader fight for racial, gender, and economic justice, to mobilise a progressive base, marginalise opposition and move persuadables.

In case this newsletter leaves you wanting more, see NI’s roundup of ‘articles, essays, resources, podcasts and more that made us think about how narrative change is working today.’

‘Growing the practice of deep narrative change in the UK’. An assessment of the current state of play, with clear guidance for funders seeking to invest in transformative change.

"'Grief, Love, Action: Transforming collective sorrow into collective power' was co-hosted by Narrative Initiative and Women’s March Network. You can watch a video of the event here and find out more about our guests."

‘An afternoon of talks and conversations exploring how we define, grow and resource Imagination Infrastructuring, and the importance of collective imagination.’

‘It is, without hyperbole or caveat, a piece of law which would sit more easily in a dictatorship than a democracy. You’d expect to see it in Belarus. But instead we’re seeing it here, under a home secretary who is now so authoritarian she poses an existential threat to British liberty.’