Amanda

How do I find these people?

We must apply the same rigor, investigation skills that we would to plan our child's birthday party, that we would to plan.

We know how to do this.

We think of something we care about.

Do we care about children?

Do we care about voting?

Do we care about the climate?

Do we care about queer kids?

Do we care about housing?

And we find the group in our community who's doing that work.

And we find a leader who speaks and our body says, that's it.

I'll follow them.

And we do what that person says.

And then suddenly and magically, we find ourselves with a worldview.

We don't feel shocked by ICE, actually, because we know this is just another manifestation of the slave patrol.

This is just another group that is morphed to protect white supremacy.

Suddenly nothing feels like surprises because we've been in circles where people are talking about this stuff and educating each other.

Suddenly we don't feel alone because we have phone trees and WhatsApp groups full of people we've met at these places who are taking care of each other.

Suddenly we can go to this meeting because somebody's like making casseroles for the kids there.

Suddenly we have this situation where we actually have community and our terror of survival inside of individualism and exceptionalism diminishes while our community grows.