Prefiguring a Future We Want

Summary

Elissa Sloan Perry of Change Elemental argues movements need room to dream, play and fail: “If we can only see and sense what is, we will continue to uphold the status quo.” Yet it’s unequally shared; funders, she reports, trust white men’s ideas and ask Black women for logic models. Her lab’s answer: “cultivate the soil of possibility.”

Rationale

Her lab is one shape our “cultivating conditions for (re-)orientation” could take, and her point about who gets resourced to dream and fail applies to us as well.