Rachel Donald’s recent @PlanetCritical conversation with Max Wilbert titled “Resilience is Resistance,” captures a profound truth about how communities defend themselves while building alternatives. After reading Imbolo Mbue’s “How Beautiful We Were,” I was struck by how her fictional community’s story mirrors Wilbert’s real-world accounts: resistance creates the protective conditions necessary for genuine transformation.
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