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Sense & Solidarity is a platform where people who want to change the world come together to learn about ideology, strategy and the radical imagination.
Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano, a writer, content creator and specialist in political psychology, and Dr. Max Haiven, an educator and organizer
- lead workshops,
- host podcasts,
- and create initiatives and infrastructures
We also offer bespoke workshops and consultation for organizations. Get in touch for more information
News
- TORONTO: On March 10-12, 2026, we will host a three-day workshop on “Fighting Fascist Feelings” Registration is open now until March 14.
Workshops & Schools
Each year we organize a series of open online and in-person workshops and multi-day schools.
Often, our workshops are open to applicants. You can sign up for email updates or join our Discord server for news.
We also offer bespoke workshops for organizations.
Our upcoming workshops and schools
- LONDON: On March 7, 2026, we will host a one-day workshop on “How can we fight fascist feelings? Registration is open now until February 7.
- TORONTO: From 10-12 April 2026, we will host a 3-day school on Fight Fascist Feelings.
Our past workshops and schools
- Fighting Fascist Feelings and How (Not) to Sabotage Your Movement online courses, December 2025-January 2026.
- Fighting Fascist Feelings 4-day school in Brussels, November 2025.
- Fascist Dreams, Antifascist Awakenings, 5-day school in Palermo, May 2025.
- Changing Hearts and Minds, 3.5-day school in London, November 2024.
- May Day Movement Academy, 4-day school in Berlin, May 2024.
- Changing Hearts and Minds, 12-week online course, September-December 2023.
Podcasts
You can find our podcasts by searching for “Sense & Solidarity” in your podcast app, or by using the services of verious murderous corporations.
- RSS (generic)
- Apple
- Spotify
- Soundcloud
- Sense & Solidarity
THOUGHTSNACK
THOUGHTSNACK is an occasional podcast about how critical theory can help us make sense of our utterly deranged world. Episodes:
- What motivates fascists?
- Have more/fewer babies
- Student cheating = working class refusal?
- He’s so charismatic and so can we
What Do We Want?
What Do We Want? is a 6-episode podcast about the weird, wild and wonderful things that bring movements together… and drive them apart!
- Heartbreak
- Conspiracy
- Despair
- Fantasy
- Shame
- Pleasure
Initiatives & Infrastructures
In addtion to our outreach activities, we also build infrastructures for the next generation of radical public intellectuals.
We can neither confirm nor deny that they may include writing retreats, peer support groups and a secret society.
About us & Contact
Sense & Solidarity is a tiny organization run by two reckless friends.
All of our funding is earned through offering workshops and other services, and we are supported by RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab.
Sarah Stein Lubrano
Dr Sarah Stein Lubrano has a background in feminist, mutual aid, and other local organising as well as teaching in prisons.
She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and a Master’s degree from the University of Cambridge.
Her thinking often reaches the public through the Sense and Solidarity Initiative and the Future Narratives Lab.
She was previously the Head of Content at The School of Life and wrote obituaries. She regularly appears on public radio and a variety of podcasts.
Her first book is, Don’t Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st Century Minds is out now with Bloomsbury.
Max Haiven
Dr. Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination.
His most recent books are Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022), Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020) and Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018).
Max is currently working on a book for MIT Press titled The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st Century Fascism and a board game, Billionaires and Guillotines.
He led a team that recently published The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers (2024) and is editor of VAGABONDS, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press.
He teaches at Lakehead University, where he directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL).
Contact
We maintain an email list and a Discord server.
To sign up for updates, send an email to sense+solidarity-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
To reach us, email info [at] senseandsolidarity [dot] org