Foundation & Skill-Building
Programming
Sessions
Introduction — What is Organizing?: Sept 27, 2026
Recruitment, Theory of Change, Points of Unity: Oct 4, 2026
Structure + Outreach: Oct 11, 2026
Leadership Development: Oct 18, 2026
Campaign-Building: Oct 25, 2026
Risk Assessment, Surveillance, and Security: Nov 1, 2026
Direct Action: Nov 8, 2026
Coalition-Building: Nov 15, 2026
MASGD’s Organizing 101 Program is a weekly training series of 8 sessions intended to cover the basic skills of organizing. This training program offers practical, hands-on skills for individuals, groups, and organizations that are starting organizing projects or campaigns. We’ll cover how to build the foundations of an organization as well as build the skeleton of a strategically escalatory organizing campaign that can win short term and long term goals. Then, we’ll discuss organizing methodologies, tools, and techniques that cultivate effective leadership, build sustainable power, combat repression, and keep your community safe.
Organizing 101
Upcoming Offering
About
Weekly on Sundays from Sunday, September 27, 2026 to Sunday, November 15, 2026
11 AM to 1 PM PT / 2 to 4 PM ET
Schedule
Sessions
Disability Justice 101: Sunday, September 6, 2026
Living Disability Justice: Sunday, September 13, 2026
Please join Mx. Yaffa for a two-session series (3 hours each) to discuss disability justice as an organizing methodology. We will delve into the basic tenets of disability justice as envisioned by Sins Invalid and the specific ways we organize as disabled individuals building a liberated world. We'll probe these topics and the differences & intersections between them.
How can you use Disability Justice as a methodology for liberation organizing
Being disabled and not using disability justice as a methodology
Being a disabled organizer that utilizes disability justice practices
We will explore the vision, values, and pathways for a collectively liberated world.
Disability Justice as an Organizing Methodology
Current Offering
About
Weekly on Sundays on Sunday, September 6, 2026 and Sunday, September 13, 2026
10 AM to 1 PM PT / 1 to 4 PM ET
Schedule
Sessions
Methodologies 101: Sunday, August 2, 2026
Trans and Queer Methodologies 101: Sunday, August 9, 2026
Please join Mx. Yaffa for a two-session series on August 2nd and August 9th, 2026 for four hours each to discuss trans and queer methodologies for world-building. Along with dissecting how they intersect with other disability, Indigenous, and feminist methodologies, we will explore the vision, values, and pathways for trans and queer methodologies.
Trans and Queer Methodologies
Past Training Program
About
Weekly on Sundays on Sunday, August 2, 2026 and Sunday, August 9, 2026
9 AM to 1 PM PT / 12 to 4 PM ET
Schedule
Sessions
Topics included:
• Jamma’ah: Surat Al-Nahl
• Salat ~ Mind-Body Practice
• Truth and Justice ~ Surat Yusif
A ten session series exploring Islam as a liberatory practice, with a focus on and run by Trans Muslims. This program centers Islamic teachings and practices that are integral to our foundation as humans and discusses pathways to move towards Trans Muslim liberation using trans Muslim methodologies.
Towards Trans Muslim Liberation
Past Training Program
About
Weekly on Fridays from Friday, January 9, 2026 until Friday, March 13, 2026
10 AM to 12 PM PT / 1 to 3 PM ET
Schedule
Organizing to a Living Utopia
Past Training Program
Schedule
Topics included:
• Envisioning Utopia
• Building a Love Ethic & Embracing Belonging
• Death as Utopic
An expansive, open-access training rooted in collective liberation to discuss building Utopia, a collectively liberated world. This 8-session training series is an expansive offering built by Mx. Yaffa through their organizing work for over 15 years across dozens of countries and hundreds of communities. This program is built around Yaffa's book Letters From a Living Utopia, published by Common Notions Oct 2025. This program is designed to be highly accessible—no cohort structure, no requirement to attend all sessions, and access to stipends to ensure financial accessibility.
About
Weekly on Sundays from Sunday, December 7, 2025 until Sunday, January 25, 2026
9 AM - 11:30 AM PT / 12 - 2:30 PM ET
Sessions
Be Cute. Stay Dangerous.
Past Training Program
Sessions
Topics included:
• Transness, Disability, and Death as Methodology
• Claiming Collectivism
• Building Beyond Oppression
An expansive, open-access training rooted in collective liberation organized into three arcs: Foundation Building, Claiming Values and Practices, and Building Utopia. Each arc is designed to support organizers and movement workers in deepening their practice, regardless of positional power, experience, or formal role.
About
Weekly on Sundays from Sunday, August 3, 2025 until Sunday, October 17, 2025
10 AM - 12 PM PT / 1 to 3 PM ET
Schedule
“This program supported my organizing by helping me to think more about how to strategically use my power and developing practices that I can continue to use outside of the program to reflect and take care of my body and mind and not get burned out as easily.”