University of Wisconsin–Madison

The Alchemy of Organizing: Turning Insecurity Into Solidarity

Astra Taylor, writer & activist

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A woman stands outside before bright green greenery that is out of focus. Her shoulders are perpendicular to the camera, and her head is turned to her left, looking directly at the viewer. Her dark brown curly hair is worn in a chin-length bob with bangs. In the sunlight, her hair glows red. She wears a black pointelle shirt with a scoop neck revealing her collarbone.

Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker, and organizer. She is the director of numerous documentaries and the author of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, and The People’s Platform (winner of an American Book Award), among other works. Her latest book is the co-authored Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, co-written with Leah Hunt-Hendrix. She was the 2023 CBC Massey Lecture and she cofounded the Debt Collective, a union of debtors.