Novak, AngelaAnderson, Brittany2024-04-032024-04-032024Novak, A. & Anderson, B. (2024). Our world, our fight: Teaching advocacy and activism as a pivotal practice for talented youth. In J. Nyberg & J. Manzone (Eds.) Practices that promote Innovate for talented students (pp. 23-49). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5806-89781668458068http://hdl.handle.net/10342/13345Teaching advocacy and activism is a pivotal practice for talented youth. Advocacy is broadly defined as championing a cause, from self-advocacy and community/local issues to sociopolitical and global awareness contexts. Activism is the shared struggle for the “inalienable right of all people to human be—to be liberated from any project of violence that treats… persons…less than fully human” (Valdez et al., 2018, p. 247). This chapter first builds background in the three characteristics of pivotal practices: authentic, cognitive, and holistic. Each of these characteristics has a Pivotal Practice in Play section, providing the reader with an exemplar of grassroots activism or advocacy using relevant examples that readers can connect with from history, collective peace movements, Dolores Huerta, and Ella Baker. Finally, the chapter ends with a discussion and a present-day case study about this pivotal practice through an intersectional lens, and how teaching advocacy and activism impacts and is impacted by identity and agency.advocacyactivismagencyequityidentityintersectionalitycase studiesauthenticholisticcognitiveGrassrootsfunds of knowledgeChapter10.4018/978-1-6684-5806-8.ch002