Matt McGorry Instagram – “We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice” by @adriennemareebrown Today is the birthday of my dear friend, the magical, powerful, and world-shifting adrienne maree brown. Happy birthday, wonderful! :) I have been wanting to post this book for quite a while. It is such a beautiful and liberating spell, a necessary antidote to the culture of cancel that has burrowed too deeply into our movements for justice. Given the complexity of the topic, there is not much that I can say here to add to what you will read in the pictures of the pages of the book above and hopefully, the book itself. The only thing to say is that the phrase “cancel culture” has so many different meanings depending on who is using it. No one as far as I know would self-identify as a proponent of cancel culture (“I support cancel culture!”). The right like FOX news uses the phrase “cancel culture” to mean anything that is critical of actions rooted in systems of oppression. Meaning that if someone is criticized for doing something sexist, it is dismissed as “cancel culture” rather than a legitimate critique. Certainly liberals do this at times as well. I am concerned with how “cancel culture” is undermining liberation movements and keeping us from building the broad base coalition that is necessary to recreate this entire system in the name of justice and equity. We must continue to find and develop ways of holding each other as we continue to grow and learn. My Booklist: bit.ly/mcgreads (link in bio) #McGReads