Editor’s Letter

“A patient said to me, ‘You’ve given me my future back.’ When somebody says that to you, how do you not keep going?”
— Tammi Kromenaker, clinic director at Red River Women’s Clinic in Moorhead

Our safety net is to work in a system of production within community.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” — Angela Davis

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” — Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“Feminism asks: what would it be to end the political, social, sexual, economic, psychological, and physical subordination of women? It answers: we do not know, let us try and see.” — Amia Srinivasan

“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