“…I’m saying that democracy is more demanding than you think it is, because you have to do this other thing, too.” We have to protest. But we also have to weave the social fabric that politics is meant to support.
—Oliver Burkeman quoting Robert Talisse in “How the news took over reality,” The Guardian, 3 May 2019
I attended the Teen Wisdom Panel at the David Brower Center in Berkeley a few weeks ago. So when I read this passage about weaving the social fabric that politics is meant to support, I thought of my evening listening to six young women and their mentor Emily Frost honoring and sharing insights from eight years of weaving they were marking with this event. The group first met as girls when they were 10–11-year-olds. With Emily holding space for them and with them, they met for two and a half hours twice a month for the past eight years. That’s some serious weaving.
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