We learn from…
On this page, we collect links and quotes from people who teach us, inspire us, and empower us.
adrienne maree brown
She inspires us with her combination of healing, justice, and science fiction—she shows us how change can be both radical and loving at the same time.
Bayo Akomolafe
He invites us to slow down and listen—to the unexpected, to the unfamiliar, to that which lies beyond the realm of the known.
Leah und Naima Penniman von der Soulfire farm
They live what food justice means: reconnecting with the land, history, and collective care.
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was a Black, lesbian, feminist poet, activist, and theorist. In her work, she combined personal experiences with political analysis and spoke about intersectionality long before the term existed.
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Prentice Hemphill
Through thier work on embodied healing and justice, Prentice reminds us that our bodies are places of wisdom and transformation.
Jennifer Mullan
In her book Decolonizing Therapy, she reminds us that healing is political and that our wounds also carry stories of resistance.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
She combines indigenous knowledge with natural science—and shows how we can learn to talk to the earth again.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer, disabled, non-binary writer, artist, and activist. In her work, she highlights how care is lived more collectively in marginalized communities. Her vision of disability justice inspires our understanding of care culture.
Mikaela Loach
She stands for climate activism with heart and radical honesty—and for the idea that hope is an act of resistance.
Alok
With courage and beauty, Alok breaks down gender boundaries – and opens up spaces for radical self-love and visibility.
Heather Jo Flores
Heather Jo Flores is a permaculture designer and author. Through her work on creativity and collective care, she opens up spaces for personal development and cultural change.
bell hooks
She politicized love—as a practice of freedom, as the basis of feminist, anti-racist liberation.
“I don’t think there is any one single answer to the need for care. I just want, to echo my friend Dori, more care, more of the time. I want us to dream mutual aid in our postapocalyptic revolutionary societies where everyone gets to access many kinds of care—from friends and internet strangers, from disabled community centers, and from some kind of non-fucked-up non-state state that would pay caregivers well and give them health benefits and time off and enshrine sick and disabled autonomy and choice. I want us to keep dreaming and experimenting with all these big, ambitious ways we dream care for each other into being.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
