Eunhae Han’s Reviews > Loving Corrections > Status Update

What keeps me grounded is learning about ongoing repression all over the world, constantly, and seeking patterns of resistance. I am learning all the time to "transform myself to transform the world, as Grace Lee Boggs taught us. What keeps me grounded is accepting that I cannot do everything, but if I let my rage, grief, and inspiration move me, and we each show up where we are most enraged, grieved, and inspiredl

Redistribute resources. Not as charity, which is just another way to assuage the conscience of privilege. Redistribute money, leadership positions, decision-making power, lan, time in meetings, visionary space, relationships with philanthropy, speaking opportunities, press attention, health care benefits. ll you can measure it, you can redistribute the resource.

We have to take the best of what we understand to work at a small scale, and apply our learnings to a multicultural, globally woven existence.

For my entire conscious life, I have participated in movements trying to improve the world, and I have noticed that we activists suffer from a massive deficit of imagination.
We are skilled at critiquing, analyzing, deconstructing, memorizing, reiterating, complaining about, and hating on the capitalist system, the people who hold power in this system, those complicit in it, and, of course, ourselves. And these are

Le Guin was also someone who aimed to challenge everything about the world we live in, using fiction to do that work.
As I plumbed her archives, I saw that she deployed her letter writing in the same way.

But at a certain age, all humans need mirrors, witnesses, people they can trust to hear their lives, to cut through any victim narratives, and help them pivot away from behaviors that harm themselves and others.
That's literally what friends are for. Women are actively doing this for each other right now, witnessing each other, reaching for our own lives, holding each other's hands as we walk toward our power.

There is love at the center. To get there, we need to create conditions that support dignity for each person, and stop confusing identity with community. Building and sustaining communities that can survive and create more possibilities together—that is movement work. We are tasked

Le Guin notes, there is joy in discovering new ways to do things, experimentation, and telling our truth.

What if I saw the patterns that most offend me as instigation for my own growth?
What if these patterns helped me to set better boundaries and increase my own self-adoration? What if I wanted to maximize my potential to be in right relationship with everyone I meet?

We need each other. Loving Corrections is about how much we need each other. We need to learn how to be, to learn the impact of who we are, and to explore which small, individual shifts can accumulate into community practice and ultimately yield the greatest collective changes. The corrections referred to in the title are intended to allow us more authentic access to each other from nuanced positions of power,l