From Solidarity Wedges
to Bridges

About this Intensive

Solidarity is in our collective DNA, but systems, narratives, and habits can create wedges that prevent us from being in deeper relationships across movements. This Solidarity Intensive, facilitated by SolidarityIs at Building Movement Project in June 2026, invited individuals working actively in nonprofit and movement spaces to deepen solidarity practice and be part of a hands-on reflection and skills-building practice session. Through interactive learning, dialogue, and analysis, we drew on the experiences of organizations and movements practicing solidarity across difference, tension, and harm, while staying grounded in collective liberation. Participants left with frameworks, tools, and ideas that they can pilot in their organizations.

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The Solidarity Wedges to Bridges Discernment Toolkit is grounded in BMP’s decade of work building transformative solidarity with frontline communities and was shaped by the May 2026 State of Solidarity (held in partnership with the Transgender Law Center) and our Solidarity Wedges and Opportunities Intensive. The toolkit offers a framework for understanding the wedges that emerge in our collective work. It invites us to examine the conditions, relationships, risks, and possibilities at play and discern what it may take to transform wedges into bridges.