Weekly Wrap-Up

This week brings another political low, another chink in the armor of democracy. In the words of Priyamvada Gopal

We face an entrenched reality now, here to stay for the foreseeable future. It's the reality that the anticolonialists of the world once faced: huge empires with vast weaponry at their command, literal & ideological, & the ignorant consent of swathes of their populaces.

How do we stand up against this tide of xenophobia, fear mongering, lack of accountability, dismissal of facts and objective truths? How do we push back? Its easy to feel despair and grief, but we cannot give up and we cannot turn away from what is in front of us. The road to our collective freedom is long and arduous. But we must show up and take the first step and then another and then another. That’s how we move from despair to action and from action to change. As Priyamvada Gopal said, the odds were always against us. Lets continue the hard work anyway.

WHAT WE’VE DONE

  • We announced the inaugural Fellowship for the Future cohort ✨✨✨

500WS meet-up at AGU. Photo credit Dany Waller

500WS meet-up at AGU. Photo credit Dany Waller

WHAT WE LIKE

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