Editor’s Letter

“She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” — Annie Dillard

“Our voices are a resource. Our pain is a resource. Our joy is a resource. Our connection and love for one another will be the resource. We are not disconnected; we are always moving together. That changes everything.”
— Diane Rosenfeld, “The Bonobo Sisterhood”

“There is no single story that tells the truth of this community of cells self-organizing within our skin.” — Susan Raffo

“It is time … to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
— Maya Angelou

Data reveals the roots of why people are incarcerated — and indicates why prison might not be the solution.

We all need to be involved
in building communities, not focused solely on developing things. — Winona LaDuke

The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle. — bell hooks

“Several women in politics that Amra and I have interviewed indicate their greatest strength is in listening. They learn what the issues are, talk to people about what might resolve those issues, and figure out how to make it work.”

“All of a sudden you feel like somebody has your back and you matter. You are not just an addict. That grace is huge.” — April Chouinard

The is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. — Audre Lorde

Replacing trauma, ghosts, gossip, and the politics of toxic masculinity with a warmer space of Vision and Values.

“Imagination shared creates collaboration, and collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.” — Terry Tempest Williams