Frameworks & Guides
What Shapes What We Believe Is Possible?
Every organization, movement, and community is guided by stories. Some are visible. Others live beneath the surface as assumptions about belonging, leadership, value, knowledge, and change.
The Deep Sighting Framework is an invitation to look beneath those stories, understand how they shape our structures, and build practices that can carry the futures we hope to create.
As I use it here, Deep Sighting is not a curriculum design process. It is a way of attending to what lives beneath the surface: the desires, assumptions, stories, silences, relationships, and structures shaping what people believe is possible.
The Deep Sighting Framework can inform curriculum architecture, strategy, cultural programming, coalition building, organizational reflection, evaluation, learning systems, and implementation. These guides offer questions, concepts, and practices for aligning vision with action.
Explore how story, curriculum, strategy, and systems change come together in Luanna Peterson’s work.
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Source Genealogy
The Deep Sighting Framework is held in relationship with a Black feminist genealogy of deep sighting, writer-activist practice, cultural memory, story-based strategy, and community accountability.
This includes Toni Cade Bambara’s Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions, Billye Raushanah Smith’s scholarship on Bambara’s commitments to countering hegemony, accountability, resisting false binaries, and reconstructing historical memory, and the work of Black feminist thinkers, teachers, artists, and cultural workers whose practices deepen how we understand memory, embodiment, story, liberation, and collective responsibility.
Rather than treating these sources as ornaments, this page gathers guides, notes, and reflections that show how study becomes practice, how memory becomes method, and how story can help us build more accountable structures for the futures we name.
