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How might we be complicit in sustaining the dominant institutions and ways of knowing that continue to perpetuate harm?
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Are we willing to work harder, move slower, and sacrifice our comfort and ego in service to a different way of being?
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What we we doing to hospice dominant and destructive hegemonies and compost their components? As we engage in these activities, are we learning from peoples and cultures that have already endured and learned from their own apocalypses?
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Are we allowing sorrow and joy, grief and celebration, to remain fiercely connected to each other? Are we tending to each so that trauma does not define us?
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Are we balancing the thinking, feeling, and doing? Are we taking breaks for restoration as we “swim against the tides of denial”?
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Are we behaving as “architects of abundance”? What early signs of bridging, kinship, and reclaiming belonging within the web of life do we observe?
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Do the ways we work align with our answers to the question: What kind of ancestor do you want to be?
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How can we be ever more radical, loving, relational, creative, and joyful our learning, teaching and convening, even in the face of collapse?
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As we live and work “outside the box”, are we attentive to remaining “inside the circle”?
(These questions have been raised to us and/or inspired by many thought- and care-full people including: Marie Vea, Nakasi Fortune, Vanessa Andreotti, Ross Gay, Lyla June Johnston, Rowen White, Bayo Akomolafe, john a. powell, Mama D. Ujuaje, Audre Lorde, John Hausdoerffer)