The Importance of Connection in Political Work

"We're not going to get free if we don't also have our healing traditions at the center of our political work," she says. "It's why, you know, my mom never talked about her parents, right? She was pregnant with me and she lost her father." Her mother died in a car crash when she was just 26 years old. A lot of what I come to understand about what I call exquisite care is from her; watching the amount that she was willing to sacrifice because she wouldn't called them political convictions.