Our country does not care for mothers or the lives of children or women in general or black and brown people or people who are ill or disabled or elderly people or trans people or incarcerated people or indigenous people or artists or workers or fat people. It really doesn’t care about anyone’s health or living conditions or learning. It doesn’t care about other animals or Earth or God. All it cares about is the dominance of a few pale men and among those men, every man is only for himself. Their loneliness is shattering. A panic of separation is shattering our world an experience of separation so terrifying and painful, they can only manage it by turning it into their supreme object of desire. If you are wondering how to make a revolution, become a revolution of mothers. Find a way to do what the pale men cannot. Care for everyone. Care for the stranger the difficult other people’s children those who earn more or less and criminals and those who disgust you. and those who hurt you even if there must be distance between you and those you meet only in passing and everyone you can imagine ever meeting in this life. Like Ganesha whose belly hosts all worlds, build crucibles of care and love with those who see what you see and hold everyone there. Be practical and concrete— not just words or philosophy. Demolish the walls around your heart your hands, your legs and feet then all of the other walls will find ways to come down. Let's be a revolution of mothers whoever we are. Be a male mother a trans mother a fierce mother a feminist mother an old mother a mother who never wanted children, but wants the world. Mothers: we can birth a world that does not separate that does not question anyone's primordial belonging.
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