Care is the resistance they weren't expecting
Love Notes on Liberation 8
Things are as bad as we were afraid they would be in the United States. Women are being thrown in jail for having miscarriages, community members are being kidnapped by unidentified masked men, transgender youth and adults are abruptly losing life saving healthcare. These are dark times, but I still have a spark of hope, and what ignites that spark is the people.
The outpouring of community support and solidarity I see in little and big moments every single day moves me to hopeful tears because I can feel the strength of all our hearts. We are demonstrating how much we care about the well-being of our neighbors: we create human chains to protect community members from being kidnapped, we show up in elections to vote for politicians that will take care of the people, we protest and demand human rights stop being violated. Caring is our upper hand. Care is the power we are wielding.
They underestimated how much we love each other.
Being who they are, they don’t understand the power of love and interconnectedness. They didn’t think we would show up for each other. They couldn’t fathom how much we care and how strongly we believe in a just world.
They are overwhelming us on purpose so we will shut down and let them steal everything we worked so hard to build. Resilience is refusing to check out or lose hope. Resistance is counteracting their violations to humanity by doing what is human—feeling—and having the courage to be present with what comes up.
We can turn the energy of our feelings into power, strength, and purpose.
We resist and care for each other under corrupt, hateful, wealth mongering governments, by getting out of our heads and feeling what is happening to humanity in our hearts and then taking action from that place, as so many already are.
Let what you feel lead you to the truth, which is your own strength and power, and your own purpose. The current moment is a tipping point in history, and trusting your role in the change that is possible is an act of self-love, love for humanity, and for earth.
Every day each one of us has the capacity to show up in a love that is not only resistance to their destruction, but is creative, and moves us in the direction of harmony and care. It moves us in the direction of liberation.
We will not give up because we love each other so much and they can never take that.
In solidarity,
Emily
Care is fluid...There's no such thing as self care vs collective care. Care is a continuum that resonates, ripples, and reflects. It expands and makes room for us. Care doesn't absorb the self it creates capacity for our many selves.
- aja monet (via substack)
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