community is all we have

Loneliness has been referred to as a global health epidemic by several world governments and found to decrease life expectancy more than anxiety, depression, or smoking fifteen cigarettes a day.9 Leading researchers have also shown that chronic loneliness both increases the body’s inflammatory response and decreases the immune system’s ability to f

“Trying to see your friend in a big city is just sending a list of dates months away back and forth forever, until one of you dies.”

By radical friendship, I mean the kind of friendship that has the potential to heal us at the very ground of our being.

Restorative justice is focused on the importance of relationships. It is focused on the importance of repair when those relationships are broken, when violations occur in our relationships. It is very much interested in community, because it asks whose responsibility is it to actually meet the obligations and needs that are created through violatio

The myth of independence also shapes what literature looks like and what kind of writing is valued. We see a novel as better than a short story anthology. We rarely see collaborations in fiction or in poetry. Our literary praxis is that of the lone author typing away by themselves. Our poetics come from solitary brilliant minds. We still cling as a