The Estuaire library
We created this library to bring together the resources that nourish our practice and inform the way we work. Here you'll find articles, podcasts, tools, and poems that have guided us – and continue to guide us – as touchstones and sources of inspiration throughout our journey.
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- apprentissage & humilité 23
- co-construction & participation 3
- facilitation & concertation 7
- gouvernance partagée 2
- imagination & exploration 9
- innovation sociale 4
- mesure d’impact 2
- pluralité des savoirs 4
- stratégie 3
- systèmes & interdépendance 13
- territoire & relations 9
- transparence & responsabilité 8
- économie sociale 3
- équité & justice sociale 17
ALOK: The Urgent Need for Compassion
A conversation from the Man Enough Podcast with ALOK on what compassion changes in practice: our language, our reflexes, and how we make room for diversity.
Diversité d'Abord : Racism in the nonprofit sector in Quebec
A research project by the Centre for Community Organizations (COCo), conducted from 2016 to 2024, examining racism in Québec’s community sector.
Trabian Shorters — A Cognitive Skill to Magnify Humanity
This episode of On Being with Krista Tippett with Trabian Shorters explores a crucial narrative and relational skill that has us noticing and naming the strengths of people and communities before anything else.
Laissez-nous raconter : L’histoire crochie
In this podcast hosted by Innu poet Marie-Andrée Gill, Indigenous Peoples take back the talking stick to tell their own side the story.
Journal of Radical Permission
A guided journal by Sonya Renee Taylor and adrienne maree brown, designed as a daily companion for following your soul’s calling and supporting a learning-and-healing journey.
Apprendre à nous écrire : Guide & politique d'écriture inclusive
This guide presents inclusive writing in French, the main approaches in practice, and the social, linguistic, and political issues at stake.
all about love
A book by bell hooks that reframes love as a practice and an ethic, not just a feeling, making clear links between love, justice, and healing.
Feminist City: A Field Guide
A book by Leslie Kern on how urban planning and everyday life in cities are experienced differently depending on gender, class, race, and ability, and on what a differently designed city could look like.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
A collection of essays and speeches by Audre Lorde on racism, sexism, homophobia, and power, bringing together lived experience and analysis in an uncompromising voice.
Imagination: A Manifesto
A book by Ruha Benjamin that argues for imagination as a collective, political capacity, essential for moving beyond “default” futures and designing more just alternatives.
My Grandmother's Hands
A book by Resmaa Menakem on racialized trauma and how it lives in the body, offering pathways toward repair grounded in the nervous system and in relationship.
The Body is Not An Apology
A book by Sonya Renee Taylor that frames radical self-love as a social justice practice, challenging body shame and the systems that produce it.
What My Bones Know
A memoir by journalist Stephanie Foo on her experience with complex PTSD, how it shows up in the body, and what healing can look like in practice.
The Body Keeps the Score
A book by psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk that explores how trauma can shape both brain and body, and outlines a range of recovery pathways.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
A book by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski that explains why women experience burnout differently than men, and offers a science-based roadmap for completing the stress cycle and reducing emotional exhaustion.
The Seed
An online learning program by New Room (Danièle-Jocelyne Otou and Erin Willett) focused on inclusion, equity, power, and belonging.