Courtesty of Penguin Random House (PRH) Audio. Listen to audio from Fierce Love, read by me here. From learning to put down our emotional baggage to speaking truth to power to resisting joyfully, gaining a renewed sense of the power well all have to create caring communities to stand up for the vulnerable and to change our shared story from one of anxiety, anger, and divisiveness to one of mindfulness, compassion, and unity. Inspired by the Ubuntu philosophy “I am who I am because we are who we are” and explained through stories from my own life and those of my mentors and inspirations, in this book I detail the nine daily practices necessary for transforming ourselves, our communities, and our world at large. But my experiences-of of being a woman in a traditionally male domain, of being in an interracial marriage, of making peace with childhood abuse-demonstrates that our human capacity for empathy, compassion, and forgiveness is the key to reversing these ugly trends. We are living in what I call “hot mess times”: a world divided by politics, race, intolerance, fear, and rancor. I’ve worked in civil rights for the last twenty years and now lead the Revolutionary Love Project. Valarie lives and works with her filmmaking partner and husband Sharat in Los Angeles, where she enjoys dancing, chocolate, and walking along the sea with their dog Shadi. SikhNet has had a profound impact on our community and on my life. Dear Sadh Sangat ji, My name is Valarie Kaur. Her films include Divided We Fall (2008), Alienation (2011), Stigma (2011), The Worst of the Worst: Portrait of a Supermax (2012), and Oak Creek: In Memorium (2013). I’m a daughter of Punjabi Sikh farmers in California, where my family has lived for more than a century. He was planting flowers in front of his gas station when he was shot in the back, targeted for his turban.īalbir Uncle wore his turban as part of his faith - his commitment to love all of humanity.A healing antidote to our divisive culture, full of evocative storytelling, spiritual wisdom, and psychological insight-by the first female, Black senior minister at the historic Collegiate Churches of New York. Dear Sadh Sangat ji, My name is Valarie Kaur. He and his brothers had come to America to escape religious persecution against Sikhs in India. Was he a saint or a fool? But Balbir Uncle would just smile, saying God wants us to serve all. His brothers would shake their heads in disbelief. He let people who didn’t have money for gas fill up and go. Since his murder, countless lives have been lost or shattered by the way our nation responded to 9/11 - in decades of war, torture, surveillance, deportations, detentions, and hate violence that continues today.īalbir Singh Sodhi was a kind-hearted and generous man, whom many called “Uncle.” He would give candy to children who came to his gas station as if they were his own children. Balbir Singh Sodhi was the first person killed in thousands of acts of hate in the aftermath of 9/11. Twenty years ago, a Sikh father was murdered in front of his gas station in Mesa, Arizona by a man who called himself a patriot. It just might be our best chance for our collective future. Valarie Kaur is met with cheers of confirmation as she speaks about minorities in the following video. Revolutionary love is medicine for our times. SEE NO STRANGER is a practical guide to changing the world, a synthesis of wisdom, a chronicle of personal and communal history – all joined together by a story of awakening. Drawing from the wisdom of sages, scientists, and activists, Kaur reclaims love as an active, public, and revolutionary force that creates new possibilities for ourselves, our communities, and our world. Valarie Kaur takes readers through her own riveting journey - as a Sikh girl growing up in California farmland finding her place in the world as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11 as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guantanamo Bay as an activist working with communities recovering from xenophobic attacks and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with sexual assault and police violence. See No Stranger is a personal and communal chronicle of the last twenty years through the eyes of a renowned Sikh activist. On Revolutionary Love Quotes from Valarie, . MaAuthor, attorney and filmmaker Valarie Kaur will be the first speaker in a new series from Cornell United Religious Work, Into and Out of the Echo Chambers, which seeks to address current societal challenges and to consider how spirituality and humanizing practices might help us meet the moment together. SEE NO STRANGER: A MEMOIR & MANIFESTO OF REVOLUTIONARY LOVE A must-read to understand the decades-long impact of 9/11 on people of color. of interview by Shankar Vedantam, Hidden Brain, National Public Radio, June 5, 2017.
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