while most people believe that rich countries support poorer countries in their “development,” there is ample empirical evidence showing that it is the other way around.4 Most of the wealth of countries in the global north comes from and is sustained by historical and systemic processes of exploitation, resource extraction, land-grabbing, unfair

Sense-making has been elevated, rewarded, and amplified by modernity to the point where it overrides all other senses. We tend to only legitimize what makes sense (in articulated meaning): what we can understand through chains of words. As a result, a whole world of unsayable possibilities is dismissed as meaningless.

Modernity predetermines what can be heard; what can be deemed real and possible; what can be imagined as desirable and ideal; and how we are supposed to feel, behave, and communicate within these parameters. This conditioning is precognitive—it is faster than thought itself as it structures our unconscious.

Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness Dani d’Emilia, Vanessa Andreotti, and the GTDF Collective

our struggles do not structurally jeopardize our survival: we have a choice to show up or not, to become visible or not, to be arrested or not, to take risks or not.

a visceral pull to do what is needed in order to maintain respectful, reciprocal relationships based on trust and consent (e.g.,

most people will not willingly let go of the enjoyments and securities afforded by modernity: they will not voluntarily part with harmful habits of being that are extremely pleasurable. However, our collective unconscious knows that the enjoyments and securities promised by modernity cannot be endlessly sustained. This book is about preparing

relational rigor: in more tentative and self-reflexive ways.

A Single Story of “Forward”