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This is why I call myself a celebrationist —because I believe joy is not peripheral to justice. Joy is justice. Pleasure is not a side effect of the work; it is the work. So many of our people didn’t survive just to survive. They survived so we could feel good . So we could gather, and heal, and holler, and praise, and rest, and keep going.

As a result, many of us retreat into individualism. We do what we think is best for ourselves, hoping to delay the inevitable. But what lands on one of us eventually lands on all of us.

Quantity time leads to quality time: What a lot of people miss about this kind of village building is that it takes "quantity time" to get the quality time. People don't ask for help from those who are never in a position to see them when they're vulnerable. It's so easy to turn down an afternoon coffee or a playdate or a girl's game night because ... See more