Holidays 2025 🎁⛄️
2025 is almost over! Time to end the year stronger in your political values than where you started. Check out all these resources as you navigate challenging conversations with friends, family, and colleagues; get clear on what you’re giving, offering, and receiving in this gifting environment; and reflect on the moves you want to make in 2026. Everything you need to stay politically centered during this holiday season — and beyond.
What’s included…
Big Picture Tips for Political Conversations
Quick grounding tips to remind yourself before jumping in to political discourse
strategy guide for your political conversations
Helps you prepare for political conversations anywhere, but especially great for preparing for holiday gatherings and conversations with friends, family, or colleagues and community
PLUS! A holiday example using the strategy guide so you can apply it to your own circumstances
Political conversation quickstart Guide - Thanksgiving Edition
Phrases you can say that range in directness and openness to help you approach Thanksgiving gathering conversations
Holiday political conversation starters
Use just for yourself or distribute at your holiday gathering to help smoothly incorporate political topics into conversation easefully
Holiday (Un)Gift List
“Gift” ideas and ways to give of your time, energy, and attention that don’t compromise on your politics or bypass consumerism through just…better consumerism 😅
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Prepare for challenging political conversations (and personalities!) at your holiday gatherings
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Big Picture Tips for Political Conversations
Help yourself stay grounded as you approach challenging conversations — works any time of year, but is especially useful as a reminder during the holiday season as you gather with friends, family, or colleagues.
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strategy guide for political conversations
Check in with yourself before holiday gatherings, meetups with friends, or any uncertain encounter when you think political issues might come up. With this strategy guide, you can take a step back, take a deep breath, and plan for the types of interactions you want to have. Preparation lets you stay firm on the issues that matter to you while preserving the integrity of your relationships and making political conversations more manageable and less charged.
Need an example? There’s a filled-in example guide here, too, so you can start to see how you might use this approach for your own conversations!
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political conversation quickstart guide - thanksgiving edition
For justice-minded folks in the US, Thanksgiving can feel like the beginning of tensions for their holiday season. You might know the real history of the holiday, and you might be aware of the ways it glosses over the ongoing genocide against Native Americans, but feel somewhat powerless in the face of others’ calls for gratitude, or holiday cheer, or “it doesn’t need to be a big deal.”
This guide is a quick list of possible ways you can begin to intervene in that dynamic — whether you want to be more direct or more open-ended, and no matter what type of relationship you have with the people you’re speaking to, there’s a path forward here.
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Why have these tough conversations at all? Check out this essay for some immediate answers on how to think about having political discussions, and sign up to get upcoming essays with more tips about how to engage and frameworks to use.
Holiday Political Conversation starters
Not sure how to even begin talking politics? Here’s a list of several easy conversation starters that you can use in your holiday gatherings (or distribute to guests to get them chatting, too).
Holidays often don’t feel like the “appropriate” time to talk politics — but they might be your only opportunity to touch base with extended family, friends, or community networks on the issues that matter. Abandoning your values for the sake of “holiday cheer” often also leaves us feeling depleted and over-extended. These conversation starters are designed to give you entryways to political topics that feel comfortable for you, so you can begin a practice of pushing yourself to deepen your political connections and stay in touch with your values, no matter the season.
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Need more support? Reach out for 1:1 offerings or find more essays here that can help you think through how to approach your political conversations and relationships.
Holiday (Un)Gift List
It’s giving season, and if you’re a politically conscious or justice-oriented person, it can feel like you’re being crushed from both sides: marketers beating down your digital door to offer sales and specials and buy buy buy . . . and on the other side, asks for donations and gifts-in-kind and support small businesses and mutual aid and charity and anti-commercialism through “ethical” buying choices…
This guide is a small intervention in the noise. It’s not a list of “ethical” places to buy from, or telling you how to spend your time and money. What it does do is, give you some thoughts and starter ideas for “gifts” you can offer this holiday season that might not require money at all, ones that align with your own values, and offerings that help deepen others’ connection and education around political issues, too.
Just because it’s the holiday season doesn’t mean you need to abandon the values that you hold all year long, and gift-giving is one way to deepen your relationships around those values very explicitly. Use these ideas to kickstart your thinking, and fill in the rest with your own innovations!
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