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Cultural Organizing and Narrative Research for a World of Beauty Belonging and Care Cultural organizing celebrates and cultivates power in our liberative traditions and practices while pursuing change and transformation at the level of collective and even subconscious beliefs symbols and stories upon which oppressive systems are built and sustained. It is a critical component of any longterm strategy for lasting systemic and policy change. It can also function in spaces and community built on autonomy and selfdetermination and be a subversive practice of freedom making in the present context of ongoing state violence and oppression. To be effective as a cultural organizer one must recognize the dominant stories and relationships we live and practice and build the capacity to imagine and practice something different.