Love > Hope: On Nourishment for Movements

Hope may be valid for social-justice movements, but it fails to sustain us. And worse, nonprofit-industrial-complex executives too often weaponize hope to shame underpaid laborers for tapping out in the face of regression. But love is more nourishing sustenance for our movements anyway.

This article draws from abolitionist values that echo the teachings of street outreach practitioners who bear witness to the most profound human suffering and who, like many activists, have every right to despair.