We are the only ones who can decide we will heal and grow, but it’s a collective process.

With little guidance other than “don’t do anything you do not fucking want to do,” we practiced world making.

The most liberatory, evolved, boundary-breaking people I know hold identities that are marginalized in some way. And when that marginalization, that experience of being “othered” is focused on your ability to make family, then of course you create other models.

A 2018 survey from Cigna found that a quarter of us don’t have people in our lives who we feel understand us.2 Only half of us have daily meaningful interactions with others. “At least two in five surveyed sometimes or always feel as though they lack companionship (43%), that their relationships are not meaningful (43%), that they are isolated from

keenly aware of the absence of the world we’d made.

This new attention helps me see a little more into her experience, and while I will never fully see it or understand what it’s like, I can work to keep that window open more often and make it bigger.

a community of friends and neighbors that provide both safety net and spring board—support when things are hard, and celebration when things are especially good. We, in turn, provide those things for them.

reframing our understanding of how we achieve the “good life” and…

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white supremacy is also a culture of rigidity, efficiency, more-is-better, ignorance-is-bliss, scarcity hoarding, binaries, and toxic individualism.