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The Future We Seed: Legacy, Strategy, and the Worlds We’re Building Beyond Survival
The future we are building is not one of mere survival, it is one where our activism, our votes, and our collective labor lay the foundation for a society rooted in justice, compassion, and equity.
This current administration may traffic in anti-science rhetoric, undermine public health, and wield technology as a tool of control, but we refuse to accept that AI and innovation will define us. We will define them. We reject the lie that wealth, greed, and graft are measures of success. True success is measured in community, in accountability, and in how we care for the most vulnerable among us.
The future we seek demands relentless, principled work, work that moves us toward a society where Black women lead in politics, in activism, in innovation. We are planting seeds now for a world where technology serves liberation, not exploitation; where justice and equity are not distant ideals, but lived realities.
As we teach the next generation, we do not pass down only survival tactics, we pass down power, vision, and the audacity to demand more. This future will not be shaped by hoarded wealth, but by shared love and unyielding justice.
So we ask you:
How are you seeing your future?
How are you guiding the next generation?
How are you building with values that honor both our past and our future?
How are you helping shape a world where worth is measured not in dollars, but in care, in courage, in collective thriving?
The seeds we plant today will become the forests of tomorrow. What will yours grow into?
Sample Themes
Planting with Intention
What you’re building now and what you hope it will become
The values, practices, or strategies you’re passing on
What it means to root down in your own vision, not someone else’s scarcity
Teaching Beyond Survival
What you want your children, your students, or your mentees to know
Moving past survival-mode politics into visionary imagination
The hard lessons you’re unlearning so they don’t have to
Innovation That Honors Us
Rethinking technology, education, AI, or data through a liberation lens
Resisting the erasure of Black creativity, science, and foresight
Naming how the tools of control can be reclaimed, repurposed or rejected
Redefining Success
Shifting from hustle to healing, and from profit to purpose
Building systems rooted in care, not control
Collective wins vs. individual achievement
Leadership on Our Terms
What it looks like when Black women lead without apology
Lessons from the past shaping how you govern, parent, teach, vote, or organize
Strategy as spiritual work. Vision as legacy
Other Possible Themes
Other Possible Themes
Legacy & Generational Power
What stories, tools, or strategies are you preserving or creating for those coming next?
The Role of Faith & Imagination
What does your spirit say the future could be? What visions are you protecting in secret?
Political Disillusionment to Political Rebirth
After everything that’s been lost - what’s worth saving? And what must be rebuilt from scratch?
Civil & Human Rights
What systems must we design so justice is no longer a gamble, but a given?
Care as Infrastructure
What if public policy was shaped by doulas, therapists, nurses, elders, and teachers?
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