Because We Need Each Other

Conversations on Cancel Culture

A while ago, I worked with two dear friends, Celia Kutz and Sonya Shah, to organize a gathering called Because We Need Each Other. This three-day gathering, hosted by The Watershed Center, brought together 20 movement leaders together for a courageous and vulnerable conversation about a dynamic that has been ripping our movements apart.

While “Cancel Culture” is an overused, over-simplified and problematic flattening of a complex series of dynamics, we chose to use it because the term is a cultural touchstone of sorts.

The gathering was powerful, and multiple threads came out of it. One of them is this series of articles cowritten by myself, Celia, Shilpa Jain and Erika Sasson and co-published by Convergence Magazine and The Forge Organizing.

The series starts with four-parts. The first two are out now, and the others will be published over the next two weeks. We are currently working on a second four-part series, which we hope to work on in the coming months.

Please join us for this juicy, vulnerable, taboo, courageous and necessary conversation. Now more than ever, our movements need to learn to respond to conflicts in generative ways and find ways to stay together.