![]() ![]() And when we think we have reached our limit, wonder is the act that returns us to love. If love is sweet labor, love can be taught, modeled, and practiced. Love is a form of sweet labor: fierce, bloody, imperfect, and life-giving-a choice we make over and over again. I believe we can reclaim love as a force for justice for a new time. Black feminists like bell hooks have long envisioned a world where the love ethic is a foundation for all arenas of our society. Time and again, people gave their bodies and breath for one another, not only in the face of fire hoses and firing squads, but also in the quieter venues of their daily lives. Social reformers through history led entire nonviolent movements anchored in love as an ethic. But feelings alone are too fickle and fluid to sustain political action. We mostly talk about love as a flood of emotion. The problem is not with love but with the way we talk about it. If you cringe when people say that love is the answer, I do, too. I think you will find her insights quite compelling: In this liminal space we find ourselves in now, Sikh activist, civil rights attorney, and author Valarie Kaur believes that “revolutionary love is the call of our times.” She brings the fullness of her faith and her humanity to answer the questions so many of us are asking. All I know is that the only way we will endure is if each of us shows up to the labor. ![]() Is this the darkness of the tomb, or of the womb? I don’t know. Revolutionary Love Thursday, November 12, 2020 ![]()
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