Community Weaving 🧶

“There will be no community without first communing”

— Nora Bateson

Community is the comfort blanket of our age.

We invoke it to signal care, stitch together coalitions, soften the brutal edges of a world in poly-crisis. Yet behind its warm glow sits an inconvenient truth: the tighter we wrap ourselves in the language of us , the more invisibly we ratify the exclusion of others —especially those who live in tomorro... See more

“Now... is the time to ‘retreat’ into the real work of reclamation, to re-member again our humanity through the intimacy of our relationships. The time is very urgent – we must slow down.” - Bayo Akomolafe

“All governance involves power: more powerful actors receive more favourable outcomes than less powerful ones; equality and fairness are rare” (Morrison et al, 2019; p.2).