We need you.

Keep moving forward, with Emma’s Revolution

Everything is a bit Fuck Shit right now, isn’t it? The only good advice I can give is this: Community is power. If you don’t have in-person community, join a church, a club, a league, a support group with whom you can be wholly yourself and spiritually as well as politically aware/active. Resist the urge to silo in grief. Find people with whom you can sing, cry, move, hug, eat, laugh and say Fuck Shit.

This has been my most reliable path out of the confusion of grief. Intentional community. In-person, showing up consistently, bringing your whole self and going all in. Sometimes it’s weird and people are awkward and no one eats the dish you brought for the potluck. But over the long term it evens out into beauty and truth and connection.

And not to get too Christian on you (sorry, I’m a Christian now), but this was Jesus’ whole point. Gather at the table. Everyone is welcome. Love is the main dish being served. Leave behind the BS of who you think you are supposed to be and follow your chosen family. How is it possible that this message has been so wholly perverted into the nationalist Christianity that is so loud and gross out there today? I can only say that in those spaces, Love is not the main dish. I’m not even sure it’s in the table. This is how you know the difference.

But you don’t have to be Christian (God knows!) to find your community. That’s not the point at all. That was never the point because Jesus wasn’t even Christian. Nor did he know anything about it. The point is, we all need loving, accepting community. We need it to grieve, to heal, to fight back, to move forward. We need it to learn how to give and receive.

And our human bodies need it. Just like we need oxygen and water and nature, we need other humans. We need to sing together and eat together and laugh and cry and hug and all those human body things. We need one another.

Keep caring for yourself and if you haven’t found your people yet, keep looking. Keep showing up. Keep moving forward. We need you now more than ever.