5/22/2023 0 Comments Book see no stranger![]() “And I feel like that is my particular role in the movement now. The marches in the streets, the flooding of halls of power.…They also happen in the spaces where people are coming together to inhabit any way of being,” Kaur says. “I keep thinking, revolutions happen not only in the big, grand, public moments. She first heard racial slurs when she was in grade school, felt pressure from those around her to adopt Christianity and was the only one in high school to go to a prestigious university like Stanford, which is where she was, trying to make sense of the world, when 9/11 happened. Kaur grew up in Central Valley, California, the granddaughter of Indian immigrants, in what was a very white, Christian community. ![]() “What if the world that we dream is waiting to be born? A world that is multiracial, equitable, sustainable, healthy…” ![]() ![]() “The future is dark - is this the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb? What if our America is not dead, but a nation still waiting to be born?” Kaur says. The concept of revolutionary love, which her publisher told her is “a cultural intervention,” is her process of asking questions that she believes will lead us to a more peaceful world. Thus began her real work around the idea of revolutionary love, which is the work that guides her today, both with her book, “See No Stranger,” and with the platform she has created online around education and tools for how to talk about 9/11. ![]()
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