Gifts
When I first read Mia Birdsong’s book How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community back in 2020, it made me cry (in a good way). I recently dipped back into the chapter “Love is Abundant and Every Relationship Is Unique: The Queering of Friendship” and it’s so good!
“‘Am I the monster?’ with trans activist Kai Cheng Thom”, a powerful episode of the A Braver Way podcast that grapples with the question: how do you talk across the political divide with someone who might exclude you, fear you, or even believe you shouldn’t exist?
Norma Kawelokū Wong’s slim book When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse — and its bold list of habits that Wong names as the (in)actions that preserve our status quo; and
john a. powell and Stephen Menendian’s book Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World.