on invitations

One year ago, Palestinian children held a press conference in their second language, asking the world to stop killing them. Towards the end, a child says, “We invite you to protect us.” This is the language we should be sitting with: what it means to protect each other; what we are willing to do with our own comfort/privilege in the name of that protection; how we respond to invitations of offering safety, not just seeking it. There is no single hero or villain that will either upend or save us. It will be the same collective actions and imaginings and reciprocities — one hundred years ago, one hundred years from now.