Under stress, we regress – we have access to fewer resources and become less able to handle challenging situations. Sacrificing your basic needs is likely to reduce your effectiveness in the long run. Anti-oppression activists must attend to their own individual needs, and to their collective needs for support, community, and energy, if they want to keep going. If you take on enormous challenges of confronting oppression, take care of yourself.
Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, By Leticia Nieto with Margot F. Boyer, Liz Goodwin, Garth R. Johnson, and Laurel Collier Smith (via cubananarchist)
It’s cool that people are reblogging this book! Some rad folks had a hand in it.
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