The Tarana Burke
Framework
Grassroots Movement-Building & Survivor Advocacy
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.
A glimpse of Tarana Burke's thinking.
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.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.
"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.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
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.
- ✦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
- →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
What it does with a real question.
A founder is deciding whether to take a large but difficult client.
Take it only if the terms change. A client that is large and difficult is really a question about who holds power in the relationship. Right now the money is offering you a platform, and a platform without resources or decision-making authority behind it is just visibility. Visibility has never paid a payroll or protected a team.
Here is the part I would not skip: the people who will absorb the difficulty are your staff, not you. Before you decide, ask the ones who would do the daily work what they think. If you've already decided and are only looking for permission, that tells you something too. Sustainable organizations are built by people who feel safe saying no, so if your team cannot say no to this client, the problem exists before the contract does.
On the client side, difficult usually means they expect access without accountability. Take the invitation architecture seriously: what is the real entry point here, and does it fit what you can deliver? If the scope is vague, "difficult" will arrive as endless revisions, shifting demands, and a team quietly burning out.
Your next move: write down the three conditions under which you would say yes. Think payment schedule, a defined scope, and a named person on their side with real authority. Send those to the client this week. Their response will answer the question for you.
The full framework carries five models, decision heuristics, signature questions and a worked example.
Written by claude-sonnet-5-5 with this framework loaded, 2026-10-11. Checked automatically for length and for copied framework text.
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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.