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We self-censor as well, thinking about the dominating audience and what it may, or may not, be willing to accept about us. Learning how to resist that internally and externally takes a community that supports us.

as Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti has noted. “It is easy,” Barghouti says, “to blur the truth with a single linguistic trick: start your story with ‘Secondly.’

When I asked what our communities needed, Neil said we need the curiosity that helps us to notice things in the world around us. So often we go quickly by on our way to whatever is next. Curiosity is a practice that our communities need the opportunity to cultivate. But with time controlling so much of our activity, these opportunities for curiosity become less and less available.