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I’ve heard many a self proclaimed guru claim that anger is negative and destructive. This is a typical wellness tactic inviting us to bypass the shame and discomfort associated with our complicity in injustice and oppression in order to maintain the delusion of security and control. But this kind of denial only serves to reproduce the same logics and relationships that got us here in the first place.
Anger is a signal. It is inherently life-affirming in that it calls us to reckon with all that is in the way of our interconnected wholeness - all that needs to be faced, healed and reconciled within us and around us so that we can move towards collective survival and thrival.
When we turn away from anger - deny it, smother it, repress it - it can become a violence against ourselves and each other. But when we avoid the uncomfortable feelings, we avoid the possibility of change.
In this way anger is a portal. Being with anger means creating space for it to move. Being willing to feel the confusion and discomfort and ground in relational accountability allows us to redirect and transmute that energy into new ways of being and doing that lead us towards deeper solidarity - not as a fix but as a practice of collective attunement.
In her latest book The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity [ [link removed] ], Sarah Schulman explains that solidarity is not so much about solving problems as it is building relational capacity and infrastructure for the future. Real world solidarity invites us to move from reaction to relationship and commit to co-struggling towards the collective healing and transformation we are yearning for.
In this edition of WELLREAD, we’re invited to reckon with our relationship to the suffering that is happening here and around the world and transmute that into practices of solidarity that affirms our mutual responsibility and shared wellbeing.
Kerri (she/her)
Artwork by @justseeds and @lookbacktosee
NTK (need to know)
How heroism and perfectionism can hinder participation in solidarity [ [link removed] ]and how historical perspectives on solidarity reveal its multifaceted nature. Check out The End of the World podcast featuring Sarah Schulman, author of the new book The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.
“Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.” From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty [ [link removed] ]
While recent polls show growing support for Palestine, the numbers don’t hold the urgency of lives, of children, of hunger, of grief. The Anger of Recognition: Witnessing Gaza and the Pain of Belated Solidarity [ [link removed] ]
“Abundance” Is How Dems Lose To Trump. [ [link removed] ]Ezra Klein’s new book is supercharging elites’ campaign to deter Democrats from challenging billionaires and corporate power.
In a time of heightened mobilization (like now) law enforcement systems ratchet up repression and deploy strategies to undermine our movements and divide us. Here are Five Questions for Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression [ [link removed] ].
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PRACTICING SOLIDARITY
What we are witnessing in Gaza is not a famine. It’s intentional starvation — a manmade crisis enforced by Israel’s blockade and destruction of aid routes. Food is being used as a weapon of war. Families are collapsing from hunger. Children are dying from dehydration. Where millions are facing intentional hunger and starvation, we are being called to do more.
Hunger strikes have historically been used as a tool of protest and solidarity in response to injustice, often when other means of redress are denied. From Irish political prisoners resisting British rule to the Indian Independence Movement opposing British colonial violence to Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement bringing attention to the plight of farm laborers in California to Palestinian prisoners resisting conditions of occupation, confinement, and erasure, fasting and hunger strikes have come to represent embodied refusal, spiritual discipline, shared practice and solidarity with those who are suffering.
ConnectHER (a nonprofit dedicated to amplifying global women’s issues through film and storytelling) has been working closely with young filmmakers and activists in Gaza for years. Since the start of the war, they’ve been providing direct aid — including food, clean water, shelter, baby formula, and other necessities— in partnership with trusted local teams. Fast4Gaza is a campaign that emerged in partnership with and at the request of our Gazan collaborators, who are leading extraordinary grassroots relief efforts under unimaginable conditions.
We’re answering the call by participating in this ongoing practice of embodied resistance and collective action in the following ways:
Fast from sunrise to sundown every Thursday
Donate what we would have spent on food to ConnectHER [ [link removed] ]
Share with your people and fast in community
Boycott companies complicit in the occupation and support the BDS movement
Gather in shared solidarity to break fast and support each other (stay tuned for upcoming solidarity meet ups)
If you cannot fast due to medical conditions you can still practice by donating to ConnectHER, withdrawing your support through divestment and economic activism (see below) and attending our solidarity meet ups for more resources on how to resist and take action for collective liberation.
Art by @bypeoni
DIGGING DEEPER
But what can I do?
Striking in solidarity isn’t one size fits all. All of us can find unique and creative ways to embody resistance and withdraw our support.
The Palestinian-led movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a global campaign initiated in 2005 by over 170 Palestinian civil society organisations, including trade unions, student groups, women’s organisations and refugee networks. It calls for boycotts, divestment and sanctions to be used to bring pressure on Israel to end its regime of settler-colonialism, military occupation and apartheid against Palestinians. Similar to the BDS campaigns which helped put an end to apartheid in South Africa decades ago, today’s BDS movement provides a set of tactics for people around the world to make a meaningful difference by putting pressure on governments, corporations and institutions to end their complicity in Israel’s system of oppression against Palestinians. Here’s a BDS starter guide complete with priority and pressure targets. [ [link removed] ]
Divestment as action is also moving the needle at home. Organized boycotts allows us to hold corporations and corrupt systems accountable by hitting them where it hurts: their bottom line (ie: Target’s market value has plummeted by over 12 billion dollars since the boycotts launched in 2025). The Peoples Union is planning a summer of coordinated economic activism targeting the worst offenders in corporate greed and corruption including Walmart, Home Depot, Target, Amazon and Starbucks (just to name a few). You can follow and participate here. [ [link removed] ]
Other things you can do here and abroad to stay engaged:
Pressure your elected officials
Organize your people in solidarity circles and actions
Support mutual aid efforts
Participate in trainings on non-violent action
Artwork by @humanitproject
WE-NESS
The revolution will not be synthetic. It is organice. It is all of us.
Art by @rblwacause
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