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Not all of us made it. But, as June Jordan wrote in 2001, "Some of us did not die... Some of you, of us, remain, despite that hatred that violence that murder that suicide... And what shall we do now, we who did not die?How shall we grieve,and cry out loud,and face down despair?"
2. Basically, I'm still holding my breath. But I'm remembering the piece @makeshiftmag asked me and @alexispauline and @hermanaresist and a bunch other longtime contributors to write in 2016, for their last issue, about what Trump's presidency might mean.
3. I was terrified, but also trauma kid calm and convinced there were too many of Us to be destroyed. And how that might have turned out to be true. We kept building and fighting and learning and doing our work harder and better the last four years. And-some/many of Us still died
4. I couldn't have predicted the breadth and beauty of the work and communities we created, us with our masks and Signal threads & community safety plans & shut down youth jails. And,the losses we hold-from 400k dead to the impact of living in terror for 4 years-are just as real.
5. June Jordan quote from first essay of https://bookshop.org/books/some-of-us-did-not-die-new-and-selected-essays/9780465036936
