Revolutionary Love: Valarie Kaur
This is a really special and timely conversation. It was a part of The Wellness of We online summit in collaboration with Anasa Troutman from The Big We and Nicole Cardoza from Reclamation Ventures. And it features my dear friend and sister Valarie Kaur. Valarie is a filmmaker, public speaker, civil rights activist and author of the book See No Stranger - which is an urgent manifesto about revolutionary love to heal ourselves and transform the world around us.
Valarie says that Revolutionary Love is the call of our time - a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are a part of me I do not yet know. That is exactly how Valarie and I met: two unlikely allies who found one another across time and space and difference. And while it was our suffering that united us, it was our relationship that transformed us. She says of this moment:
“The future is dark. But is this the darkness of the tomb – or the darkness of the womb?”
Resistance alone will not deliver us. We need a love that will give birth to the nation that we all deserve.
Connect with Valarie:
Follow her on Instagram at @valariekaur
Subscribe to The Revolutionary Love Project
Buy her book, See No Stranger
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