Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People

"I don’t believe in self-care, I believe in collective care, collectivizing our care, and thinking more about how we can help each other."

Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Brown also built upon Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” (1984), declaring, “I believe conversation is not a master’s tool. I believe being in a circle, in a community, is not a master’s tool.” Here, she describes gathering people to share stories as a web, a network, as a finding aid for like-minded voices.