13/04/2026
As Adrienne Maree Brown writes in Emergent Strategy, “It is so important that we fight for our future, get into the game, get dirty, get experimental. How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material?” Durga invites us to look for and assemble our various collective strengths, this moment requires reimagining and responding collectively and creatively to the multiple ongoinng threats – a climate crisis, multiple human rights crises, etc. Like Durga (and nature herself), our power exists collectively and has many forms, what are my strengths – and what strengths have I yet to recognize in my myself as well as my neighbors and friends. Change never comes as one instance, one flashpoint, one action. Change comes through working multiple ongoing actions, communities working together and in parallel to all serve the common aim. When we speak of individual activists, like Rosa Parks, or Angela Davis, Julia Butterfly Hill, or Greta Thungberg, we may unintentionally forget the fact that each hero we name had a multitude of organizations, support, tools, and networks working with and around them. “Where there is profound injustice, there is also creative struggle.” – Mariame Kaba
From April 2026 FOTM
Strength in Multiplicity
by Jessica Stickler from .nyc
