All of us have had failures of integrity. I believe part of what makes it so hard to consider perpetrators as part of our constituency is that we can… - Aurora Levins Morales

Storytelling is a basic human activity, with which we simultaneously make and understand the world and our place in it.

There's the nitty gritty of surviving the now, but the difference between a Band-Aid and a step is "does it open up more possibility?"...The small actions that we take-their importance is how they change us, how they change how we think. And so for any individual or small-scale action, my questions are, "Does it increase empowerment? Does it increase solidarity? Does it increase connection? Does it increase clarity about the nature of reality? Does it pull away the masking? Or does it let people feel like they've done their part and can relax and reinforce passivity?"

it's essential that we understand this: every struggle is an ecological struggle.