Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change

patience, respectful attention to multiple voices, and the willingness to live with contradictory oppositions.

Not a transcendent vision, but one rooted in transforming the dailiness of lived experience, the very ground upon which violence finds fodder”

allows us to picture—via reverie, dreaming, and artistic creativity—similarities instead of solid divisions”

in our mistaken attempts to demonstrate solidarity, we hide our differences (as well as those of others) beneath a facade of sameness.

feeling-inflected mechanisms

divisions between the Erotic and the Divine.

Status-quo stories innoculate us into believing that the way things are is the way they always have been and the way they must be. This belief becomes self-fulfilling: We do not try to make change because we believe that change is impossible to make.

she redefines differences as opportunities, or pathways, enabling us to forge complex commonalities.

we greatly diminish our possibilities for growth by assuming that these differences between our views and others’ are permanent and cannot be bridged,