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The Tarana Burke Framework

Grassroots Movement-Building & Survivor Advocacy

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Tarana Burke built movements by combining moral clarity with patient tactical execution. Tarana Burke's organising logic — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The grassroots movement-building & survivor advocacy framework distils Tarana Burke's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Tarana Burke made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Tarana Burke's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Tarana Burke's thinking.

Core Philosophy

True healing happens in community, not isolation. Movement work must center the voices and leadership of those directly affected, creating space for survivors to reclaim their narratives. Power structures change only when we build alternative systems that demonstrate what justice actually looks like in practice.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"Who is missing from this conversation, and how do we create genuine space for them to lead?"

4 more questions in Tarana Burke's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Tarana Burke Would NOT Do · sample
Launch campaigns without deep community input from those most impacted by the issue

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Tarana Burke actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Tarana Burke's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Tarana Burke, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • tarana-burke.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • tarana-burke-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Tarana Burke. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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