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Call to Action to Conjure
More Love
Let’s remember the power of love that helps us choose connection over disconnection. Here’s the
charge and call to action for each of us:
• Let’s dedicate ourselves to these rigorous and radical ways of loving ourselves.
This inner work is like gravity or air; it’s everywhere and is the solid ground for everything but often
taken for granted, not seen. Same as all the inner work that we do, it’s unseen, unsexy, hard work that
takes courage with astronomical returns.
Why do this, and what do we need to remember when we’re tired? We commit to this inner work
because we’re tired of white supremacy. We’re sick and tired of being sick and tired. We’re ready to
rise. We can’t wait for the calvary to come – the calvary is US. Setting clean, clear, strong boundaries
is step one to deeply loving ourselves radically.
• Things got to end and die when it’s their time.
We gotta learn how to let shit go when it’s time. A special proviso for OGs: we have to let go of the
ways we’ve held onto white dominant culture and how we’ve weaponized that with young people. Let
go of our pain and compost our triggers, baggage and what we think we know. It’s time to rededicate
ourselves to learning and growing with our yelders and young ones.
• Lean into eros. Cry a river. Be fully humxn and all that we are as that’s the biggest act of
rebellion to a white supremacist world that seeks to dehumanize us. Don’t ever apologize for crying
ever again. Please. Unless you will apologize for every time you smile or laugh.
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Take on leadership roles, embrace our power as amphibians to step up. More stepping into
boundaries spanning roles. Serve as catalysts to bring about all the amphibian qualities in us and
others. (See Measuring Love paper)
• Feel into all our being nature.
Open eyes and hearts, see ourselves in our work with new awareness
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How would you change your practice to transform the world if you leaned into your feelings?
How would you engage with your friends and communities?
When you embrace rage, how might you compost rage with choice so it doesn’t take over us or
unconsciously influence the ways we treat other people?
• Popularize and claim love proudly and loudly in our social benefit sector
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Embed love in all that we do; expand beyond equity, data, evidence, logic models
What if “To work” were replaced with “To love?”
Touching, hearing, seeing, tasting, and feeling the joy is the work.
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