At the beginning of 2021, we made the decision to focus our content on four key justice areas: racial, economic, climate, and health. We realized that most of the important work of civil society today falls within these. Now, we finish the year with our winter issue, which takes a first look at the emerging
Danielle Coates-Connor: I love the pieces that we did out of Edge from the Race and Justice Roundtables. And some of the more conversational stuff that we did where we were just pulling snippets from Zoom and things like that. I think it’s a different kind of knowledge creation, like this other part of
Joel Toner: You know my favorite story of the year was the one by Dax: ‘Letter to my White male friends.’ It was educational, for me. He has a great voice and presents his ideas clearly, honestly, without derision. And just makes it more accepting to read it and absorb the information.
Steve Dubb: Emily Kawano’s ‘Imaginal Cells’ piece. Danielle Coates-Connor: I was ‘Imaginal Cells’ too. I, I just absolutely loved that. I liked the literary opening of that where it went off into the metaphor. It just pulled me right in. Cassandra Heliczer: Well, I add on with the ‘Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy.’ I
Cassandra Heliczer: I continue to be very very impressed with ‘How to be an Anti-Racist Supervisor,’ and the reason that one has stayed with me so much, is that I think work justice is going to be a very very big thing. I was very surprised by what Kim-Monique Johnson, what she actually said in
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