![]() Embracing complexity means dismantling the boundary between “good” and “bad,” and creating spaciousness for seemingly conflicting truths and feelings to exist all at once. When I show up with you, when I show up in community, I remind myselfĮmbrace complexity: human beings are complex, stories are complex, and social movements are complex. Cultivating interdependence with our planet and our communities is the only way to move towards liberation.Įmergence: adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy guides us to “intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for.” Some principles of emergence that I remind myself to continually practice include: there is always enough time for the right work the large is a reflection of the small never a failure, always a lesson focus on critical connections more than critical mass less prep, more presence. Interdependence: we are in this together because our liberation is bound up with each other. Regenerative practices allow for sustainability and longevity. ![]() To use regeneration as a framework is to view our work and our lives as cyclical, seasonal, growing, and connected. Regeneration: nature is generative and regenerative. Transformative justice challenges me to expand my political imagination and to push the boundaries of what is deemed possible. Transformative Justice: transformative justice analyzes the underlying conditions that enable harm and injustice, seeks to transform these conditions, and invites us to get in the right relationships in order to create love, care, and safety for all. Alexis Pauline Gumbs Political Frameworks “What if abolition isn’t a shattering thing, not a crashing thing, not a wrecking ball event? What if abolition is something that sprouts out of the wet places in our eyes, the broken places in our skin, the waiting places in our palms, the tremble holding in my mouth when I turn to you? What if abolition is something that grows?”
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