The Origin of Matter

welcome to the origin of matter (OM)

this space is for communities, networks, and organizations who are ready to stop tweaking broken systems—and start building liberated ones.

You’re not just resisting. You’re imagining. You’re creating. You’re co-manifesting. Because while resisting injustice is necessary, imagination is what builds the future.

who you are 

  • A community, network, or movement organization

  • Grounded in a physical place or a digital platform

  • Tired—but still showing up

  • Deeply committed to justice, liberation, and collective care

what you care about 

  • Fighting fascism in all forms

  • Resisting systems of oppression, exploitation, and inequality

  • Co-creating sustainable systems that uplift all beings

  • Empowering people to radically imagine and build what comes next

what you seek is seeking you 

  • A way to transmute resistance energy into generative power

  • Tools, resources, and frameworks for living inside the solidarity economy

  • A rhythm that honors flow, rest, and clarity—not just hustle

  • Realignment with your purpose, community, and joy

the way you love

  • Intentional action, not urgency culture

  • A belief that collective well-being is sacred

  • Practices of internal reflection, rest, and recalibration

  • Conviction and Efficacy

co-create— the specifics 

Land & Liberation

  • Community land trusts

  • Land Back & Indigenous sovereignty

  • Urban–rural connection building

Sacred & Financial

  • Mutual aid rooted in spiritual values (Ismaili, Muslim)

  • Non-extractive lending models

  • BRED & sacred dollar principles

Art & Power

  • Artists’ rights & IP sovereignty

  • Anti-elitist art infrastructure

  • Union co-ops & public art funding

Abolition & Belonging

  • Abolishing borders, solitary confinement, death penalty

  • UBUNTU models of governance

  • Nonprofit alternatives: co-ops, fellowships, hybrid structures

how we help

  • People: Aligned facilitators, collaborators, and connectors

  • Practice: Tools to ground you in the solidarity economy

  • Philosophy: Theological and ancestral frameworks for building new worlds

    ✉️ Stay connected: OM (monthly newsletter) and the discord community.

our guiding belief

Imagination is more powerful than resistance—because it makes space for life beyond survival.

But we need both.
We honor your fight—and help you build what comes after.

S. Wazir Ali is a writer, scientist, and space maker living in Harlem, NY. she helps communities and organizations build the post-capitalistic world through the principles of the solidarity economy.

  • Cohesion and Adhesion, two of the many properties of water molecules that allow for the miracle of a raindrop hanging on the edge of the leaf, resisting the pull of gravity!
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