See No Stranger

Welcome to Tell it Proud, stories of courage too good to erase or ignore. I'm your host Christina Blacken. I'm a public speaker, performer, writer, and founder of The New Quo which helps every day people practice authentic leadership through daily acts of courage that improves trust and wellbeing in how we live and work together. Today's episode is an essay I wrote for The New Quo Learning Community of a review of an incredible book by Valarie Kaur's called "See No Stranger" This book is both an intimate memoir and a practical guide for social change, centered on her concept of "revolutionary love." Drawing from her experiences as a Sikh American, civil rights lawyer, filmmaker, and activist, Kaur presents revolutionary love as a powerful framework for personal and social transformation in divided times, so clearly this book is relevant at this time.