About 

Radical Imagination was established in 2020 to make space for Black, Indigenous and artists of color to commune with one another and the land.

Radical Imagination is a registered nonprofit organization that envisions alternative futures where people and land thrive through conversation, art, connection to nature, collaboration, and world-building. We’re based in the hills of Vermont US, have an office in Oslo, Norway and work globally. 

Our biggest project yet is an artistic research initiative and publication centered on Landback: access conversations, activism, art, film, information accessibility, inclusion, environmental justice, and ecologically sound solutions for the planet.  

Radical Imagination builds BIPOC-led futures through land-based residencies, collective visioning, mutual aid, cultural organizing, and regenerative storytelling.




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Accomplishments
2020 Founded the Every Town project which is committed to securing land access and sovereignty for Black and Indigenous folks in every town in the state of Vermont through local and regional partnerships. 



2021 Funded and distributed grants to Black and Brown healers to support them offering their services for free to other folks of Color in their communities. 



2021-2022 Raised funds for and partnered with a group of volunteer carpenters to build infrastructure for Black and Indigenous land based projects throughout Vermont. 



2023-2024 Hosted diverse groups on the Radical Imagination land including foraging, overnight camping, herbal first aid, wilderness skills and carpentry basics. 

Our InspirationSunRa
adrienne marie brown
our friends
Julia Butterfly Hill
Chani Nicholas 
nature 
Slow Factory 
our children 
Our Skills
Transformative Artist Residencies
Collective Visioning & Facilitation
Mutual Aid & Resource Sharing
Land Justice & Stewardship
Cultural Organizing & Public Art
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Storytelling & Narrative Change
Event design 


A word on environmental justice 
Our environmental justice work advances climate resilience by returning land to those who have long cared for it as family, not commodity. Indigenous and Black communities face disproportionate housing instability and land dispossession, leading to severe health impacts. Meanwhile, the ruling class sustains poverty and restricts access to clean air, water, and land—both through subtle tactics and direct policies.



Our PartnersNortheast Farmers of Color Land Trust

Community Resilience Organizations

Liberation Ecosystem

Conscious Homestead

NOFA VT

The Vermont Land Trust
Books We Like

🔥 On Revolutionary & Decolonial Thinking

  • "Pleasure Activism" – adrienne maree brown
  • "The Wretched of the Earth" – Frantz Fanon
  • "Borderlands/La Frontera" – Gloria Anzaldúa
  • "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle" – Angela Davis
  • "Emergent Strategy" – adrienne maree brown

🎨 On Art, Creativity & Imagination as Resistance

  • "More Brilliant than the Sun" – Kodwo Eshun
  • "The Poetics of Space" – Gaston Bachelard
  • "Staying with the Trouble" – Donna Haraway 
  • "Art on My Mind: Visual Politics" – bell hooks
  • "Glitch Feminism" – Legacy Russell
  • "Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals" – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • "All About Love" – bell hooks

🌱 On Utopian Futures & Radical World-Building

  • "M Archive: After the End of the World" – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" – Tyson Yunkaporta  
  • "Parable of the Sower" – Octavia Butler
  • "The Dispossessed" – Ursula K. Le Guin

💭 On Visionary Economics & Mutual Aid

  • "Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines" – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai’a Williams
  • "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded" – INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
  • "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)" – Dean Spade
  • "Doughnut Economics" – Kate Raworth
  • "The Ministry for the Future" – Kim Stanley Robinson



Get in Touch 

Are you working on a landback project that you think we should know about? Do you want to collaborate on an event? Reach out!

Our email is:
radicalimagination@proton.me  



Last Updated 24.10.31