Sense & Solidarity is a platform where people who want to radically change the world can learn together and build individual and collective capacity. We host in-person courses, create content and podcasts, and offer online workshops that builds on Sarah Stein Lubrano‘s focus on cognitive dissonance and ideology and Max Haiven‘s focus on social movements and the radical imagination.
We are pleased to offer two online webinars in December 2025
Fighting fascist feelings
Examining the political psychology of reactionary thought (and what can be done about it)
Monday, December 15 – Noon Eastern, 5pm BST.
What motivates the fascist imagination and what attracts people to fascism, historically and today? In this workshop, we’ll think about three kinds of fascist impulses (the opportunist, paranoid, and “psychedelic”) and explore the influence of technology, art, social media, and “common sense”. Come for the analysis, stay for the takes on anti-fascist influencing and when to take to the streets.
The first 90 minutes will be a presentation and Q&A.
The subsequent 90 minutes (optional) will be small group work and discussion.
How (not) to sabotage your movement
Shared ethos, theory of power, grassroots planning, effective actions
Monday, December 22 – Noon Eastern, 5pm BST.
The first 90 minutes will be a presentation and Q&A. The subsequent 90 minutes (optional) will be small group work and discussion.
How well are your activist meetings working right now? Is there a shared vision or are things derailing? (And, why??)
In this workshop, we’ll consider what might be at stake when people get together to fight the power and change the world. Social movements can cohere or fall apart depending on how much they align on an ethos of shared beliefs about the root causes of oppression, a common theory of how power works and what can be done to change, seize, or destroy it, a plan about how to make things happen, and/or shared experiences of action. In this workshop we’ll consider all four of these factors, study lessons from social movement history, and learn about a lightweight model that helps us set priorities, recognize differences, and stay focused on winning.
About Sense & Solidarity
Sarah is a public intellectual who writes about the breakdown of the public sphere. Her first book, Don’t Talk About Politics: Changing 21st Century Minds was published in 2025. She has a PhD in critical theory and cognitive science from Oxford.
Max is the Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination and author many books, including the forthcoming The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism. He edits the VAGABONDS book series for Pluto and makes games, including Billionaires and Guillotines.
Together, Max and Sarah founded Sense & Solidarity in 2022 to support social movements and people trying to change the world by creating a space for dialogues between grassroots activism and critical theory. We host podcasts, produce media, and organize online and in-person workshops.