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A related text from the 2020 edition of Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar by Cindy Milstein that she just shared online, related to topic of despair / hope:
Knitting with a Messy Ball of Yarn
https://cbmilstein.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/knitting-with-a-messy-ball-o...

excerpt on hope:
"What if we dispense with emoticon-happy hope or dead-end hopelessness as our false-binary assumption? What if, instead, we throw ourselves into weaving self-determined shared lifeways from the promise we have on hand, in the here and now—first and foremost, our messy-beautiful selves—and with the expectation that we’ll encounter a whole lot of entanglement in the ever-dynamic process of social transformation? To borrow an anarchistic slogan, what if we tried hard(er) to “be careful with each other, so we can be dangerous together”?"