@but-im-kim-tran
After Diversity: The Rise, Fall and Future of an Empty Promise (Haymarket Books 2027) / Ph.D. / she.hers / helping movement organizations build better cultures @ www.desaiandtran.com
- May he never eat another good meal
- The most consistent organizers I know are not posting vitriol or resentment on social media, they're mobilizing. Folks who have been fighting deportations, doing harm reduction, and abolition are describing this as an "easy" moment, an "opportunity," or "the time." This isn't to say-
- -folks aren't entitled to their anger. It is to remind us that the difference between political emotions. Audre Lorde tells us, "Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change."
- I just facilitated a session of folks who wanted to do something, but didn't know who they could organize with. I introduced an incredibly simple concept: you can organize anything with anyone. Your garden group? Meet your new comrades. Book club? Novel accomplices. PTA? Coalition partners.
- “Ochoa had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there, she said. By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.” www.propublica.org/article/alex...
