- Believe in yourself
- Speak from your heart
- Focus on your goal, not your ego
- Community change is not a sprint
- Expect the unexpected
- Emotions and bodily responses are part of the work
- Truth is not the same for everyone
- Varied perspectives are crucial: listen and look closely
- Don’t wait for the money
- ‘Experts on tap, not on top’
- Be dogged, but not inflexible
- Avoid politics and religion if they slow you down
- If you don’t ask, you don’t find out
- Tell stories with images and/or words
- When you put your head above the parapet, be ready for attacks
- Having a physical location matters
- Work across generations
- Sometimes you must make your own rules
- Thank your friends and family
- Renew: breathe, laugh, sleep, exercise
*based on interviews with women activists in Knowle West, Bristol, 2014
Created with the Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, UK, http://kwmc.org.uk/ together with the Productive Margins Programme at the University of Bristol.
http://www.productivemargins.ac.uk/partners/
