Thank you for bracing and barricading believing in banding together to protect Black and brown kin. Thank you for standing guard, whistling warnings, warming neighbors with song and food, reminding all of us that fascism only works when it’s followed

Building a parallel society to empire’s immaturity comes from millions of these seemingly small, but powerful moments — the only type of human gestures that we all want repeated in perpetuity

May the rest of us repeat them remembering everyone who belongs in our community