We know so much about trauma but so little about how to heal it. Climate change and mass extinction are ravaging the earth but going largely unacknowledged by those with the political power to do anything about it.Īs for those communities of queer people, racialized people, disabled people, social justice activists, marginalized people taking back their power? The communities that raised me to believe in the possibility of a Revolution that would change and save the world? Sometimes it seems like the most painful cuts of all come from within my community: Call out culture. Economic inequality grows ever wider while wealth and power are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a brazenly corrupt few. A wave of right-wing and openly fascist governments have been elected to power across the world. Introduction: With Love, From the End of the WorldĪnd began again in the morning.” – Nayyirah Waheed, SaltĪs I write these words, the world is preparing to enter the year 2019, and it has become something of a truism among my community of queer people of colour that the end of the world is nigh.
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