Safer
Movements
Collective

what we do
The Safer Movements Collective is working to build safer movements by providing spaces that center healing, wellness, mutual aid, and political education for organizers. We believe that liberation movements, and movement organizations, can only be sustained if these spaces become equipped to proactively respond to conflict, harm, and abuse with care. We also believe that trauma, disability, and oppression impact the ways that we relate to each other, and that our tools for addressing conflict, harm, and abuse must acknowledge that organizers are often drawn to movements because of our experiences of trauma and oppression. As organizations work to attend to these dynamics, organizers and people committed to liberation movements must develop practices of wellness and self-accountability to equip ourselves to engage in conflict; respond to harm and abuse; and promote collective care and wellness.
our work

Resources for Relational Skill Building and Education
Political Education & Peer Mental Health Support Spaces
Wellness Retreats
What is conflict?
At the Safer Movements Collective, we know that a common source of conflict is that we're using the same words when we don't mean the same things.
We value specificity over jargon. So what do we mean when we use the word "conflict" anyway?
The inaugural cohort of the Safer Movements Collective gathered to review the existing definitions, share resources, share expertise, and co-create a definition of "conflict" together.
Read our new zine to learn how we define conflict, and listen to folks in the cohort reading the zine.

Organizer Conflict Archetypes
Some situations call for emergent strategy, other situations call for rest, and in other moments we must organize, fight, and call for accountability. No single strategy is wrong. But if you find yourself always leaning on one strategy, you might be stuck in a trauma loop or a conflict archetype.





