Embracing the Gifts of Conflict for Social Change

Jovida Ross & Weyam Ghadbian

As a collective, we are living in unprecedented times. The triple pandemic of COVID-19, white supremacy, and capitalist-driven climate crisis has intensified survival fears and made the structural oppression we are living under more palpable and unbearable. We are coming face to face with the fact of our interdependence, and the stakes are high. Either we as a species learn to live well with each other and the earth now, or die trying.

As so many wise souls are reminding us, our liberation is bound together, and we need each other, now, more than ever.

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