How to go from celebrating to
learning to practice
Welcome to the Brave Sis Project Solidarity Lab. This is where the methodology lives and where team and organizational work begins. Our methodology helps celebration and learning turn into engagement and practice. Celebrate, Learn, Act—where Act means solidarity and unity at the group, individual, and community level.
Where to Begin
The SAIN et SAUF Framework
(the methodology)
Defining the approach that anchors all of our work.
What Comes After DEI
How we continue to advance justice and progress, no matter the acronyms.
For Organizations and Groups
Rep your pride and celebration.
Not DEI With A Fancy New Name
*About “BIPOC”: we know the acronym is evolving and can feel reductive and misaligned for many. We use it here as a familiar shorthand.
Why SAIN et SAUF is not DEI with a fancy new name
Over the past half decade, most organizations practiced DEI as either a liability hedge or a feel-good performance for staff satisfaction or brand uplift, an approach that was never built to withstand abrupt shifts in the social, political, and economic landscape.
SAIN et SAUF was developed to advance practices that are sustainable, authentic, genuinely inclusive, and grounded in care, from your own personal practice to your broader sphere of influence, with or without institutional support.
Our praxis is built from the study of race and racism because that is where American exclusion is most clearly documented and most aggressively enforced. But the same mechanics operate across gender, disability, class, sexuality, age, documentation status, and the many other isms that keep us separated. The Foremothers we draw on are Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous* women across cultures and centuries. Learn how SAIN et SAUF works.
Foremother Wisdom, Twice a Month
Twice a month, on the 1st and the 15th, meet three to four Foremothers gathered around a theme, with reflection and action points that you can return to. No spam, no guilt, just inspiring women to discover and celebrate.
"Nobody's free till everybody's free."
The legendary Fannie Lou Hamer reminds us that we are all in this together.