STORYTELLING & NARRATIVE

To build a new world, we have to tell a new story. At Liberation in a Generation, we know that narrative shapes culture—and culture shapes whether communities are ready, willing, and able to transform systems and policies.

That’s why LibGen engages in worldbuilding and meaning-making. Through place-based storytelling, political education, and strategic collaborations, we imagine what becomes possible when people of color have what they need to not only survive—but truly thrive. 

Our narrative work has two core functions: exposing the Oppression Economy and helping us collectively envision the Liberation Economy. We develop tools, content, and campaigns that tell new stories about our economy. We ground our narratives in lived experience, cultural memory, and a radical belief in what we know is possible. We coordinate with our partners to weave together themes that share a unified vision of an irresistible future full of dignity, prosperity, care, and generational wealth. 

Radical Pragmatism

Radical Pragmatism is our guiding framework for narrative and policy strategy. It is bold in its vision and grounded in what is possible now. Radical Pragmatism challenges the status quo while identifying real entry points to shift culture, power, and policy in the direction of economic liberation.

Our position paper outlines the current racial economic justice landscape, what Radical Pragmatism looks like in practice, and how it helps deliver structural change for Black, Latine, Indigenous, and other communities of color.

Read the report

Worldview Builders

At LibGen, we collaborate with worldview builders—storytellers, communicators, and media makers who are reshaping the cultural terrain. We partner with platforms that center inclusion, embrace nuance, and amplify the everyday lives, dreams, and demands of people of color.

Through these partnerships, we co-create content that reflects our communities’ full humanity and imagination. From political education campaigns to podcast series to narrative strategy sessions, we are growing a network of media makers and messengers committed to telling stories that sustain movements, expand public will, and lay the cultural foundation for a Liberation Economy.

We’ve worked with outlets like The Forge, NextCity, and Public News Service, among others, to move stories that matter into spaces that foster change.