This book serves as a guide and encouragement for activists, organizers, and everyday people seeking to build movements rooted in care, solidarity, and justice. Hayes and Kaba draw on personal experience, political analysis, and practical wisdom to show how radical imagination and mutual aid can counter despair and create meaningful change. It’s both a call to action and a handbook for sustaining hope and community while resisting oppressive systems, and ultimately written with hope & empowerment at its core - meant to inspire resilience and radical care while acknowledging the harsh realities of organizing.

Trigger warnings

↳ This story contains content that might be troubling for some readers, including, but not limited to depictions of:

• Discussions of State Violence

• Police Brutality
  
  

• Racism & Systemic Oppression
  
  

• Incarceration & Prison Abolition
  
  

• References to Trauma, Grief, and Death