To say that poor people don’t have enough hope, tenacity and aspiration is to deny their agency as well as the size of the structural odds they face.
A good way to move forward is to say what we really feel, and dispense with juvenile solutions.
Writer, activist and mindfulness-in-action pioneer Alessandra Pigni died from cancer in December 2018. This piece is republished in her memory.
Positive thinking is no basis for social transformation. Better to seek out the truth than live in someone else’s fairy tale.
