Writing in First Draft
Dax-Devlon Ross, Derek Beres, Jason BiehlFirst Draft is where I write through questions about work, leadership, institutions, memory, culture, and the ways we make meaning together.
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The False Promise of a New Purity Test
A few years ago, we couldn’t stop talking about the purity tests the left was supposedly exacting on everyone. There was this sense that an orthodoxy had descended on us to impose a standard of ideological exactness, and any deviation from...
We Are Not the Help, Part II
This is the second of two essays about those of us who work across the social impact sector and the strange, often invisible place we occupy within it. Part I was an attempt to surface the human and collective cost of treating people the se...
We Are Not the Help, Part I
This is the first of two essays about those of us who work across the social impact sector and the strange, often invisible place we occupy within it. As the sector searches for its footing and tries to chart a path forward, some of the peo...
Notes on Two and a Half Millenia
Courtesy Yvonne Segars
This summer, on the cusp of America’s 250th birthday, my family boarded a flight bound for Athens. Back home, the milestone felt less like a celebration and more like a battleground. We left behind a country locked i...
Growing Up Inside the Archive
This is my last essay of the first half of the year, and in some ways it feels like the piece I did not know I was writing toward all along. Over these past months, I’ve been circling memory from different directions: the long past, the rec...
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Movement Ecosystem Infrastructure. Author. Journalist. Educator. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Strategist. Lawyer. Citizen. Community member. Parent. Husband. Friend. Ally. Xer. Seeker.
Derek Beres is an Emmy-nominated journalist, podcaster, and speaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast.
Teacher, Antiracism Facilitator, Writer. Unicorns, Book One, On Discomfort, out now!
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