Brian Stout

New post! This is the question that occupies most of my waking moments: "How do I live into the world as I want it to be, while surviving - and hopefully thriving, but not at someone else’s expense - in the world as it is?" citizenstout.substack.com/p/becoming-a-c…

@garrettbucks @barnor_hesse @SceneOnRadio @chenjerai @profjohnapowell @domorisseau @SheenaMasonPhD @ConnieRazza Additional gratitude for ideas and inspiration to Angela Peoples, Eula Biss, Derek Rasmussen... ... and many others not cited in this post. As always, I'm curious to hear what resonates, what doesn't, and how you think about identity after supremacy.

With deep gratitude for ideas and inspiration to: @garrettbucks, Pem Davidson Buck, Haile Selassie, Mark Levine, @barnor_hesse, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, @SceneOnRadio & @chenjerai, @profjohnapowell @domorisseau, James Baldwin,@SheenaMasonPhD, Willie James Jennings, @ConnieRazza...🙏

This topic is near and dear to my heart: if we are to get rid of white supremacy, must we not therefore get rid of whiteness? And therefore... the very concept of race? If so... what does that mean for a world where the lie of race structures everything? citizenstout.substack.com/p/what-comes-a…

@SysConvening yes please! (to the broader CoP)

We’re on the look-out for pple who’d like to join t. steering gp for t emerging Systems Convening community of practice, as well anyone who’d like to be part of its evaluating impact sub-gp – which was an area of particular interest at t launch (message if either sound like you).

Great to join the 100+ people at the Wenger-Trayners’ Zoom earlier this week – and have the opportunity to talk with many Systems Conveners in break-outs. The slides/recording should be coming soon.

I think @ezraklein has it right here: Biden HAS to step aside, and this is the most viable path. He's already lost the base, and hope is not a strategy: the stakes are too high to throw it to Trump. nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opi…

With gratitude for ideas and inspiration to @AnandWrites @ruthbenghiat @WorkingFamilies @alexanderhaslam & Stephen Reicher, @emilynagoski @celindalake. 🙏🙏

And... harm mitigation still matters. This is where we find ourselves: It's not transformative, but preventing a worse future is a necessary but insufficient step toward creating a better one.

2024 is the year of elections: covering more than half the world's population. Some thoughts on the transformative potential of electoral politics... and navigating the gap between possibility and present reality. citizenstout.substack.com/p/electoral-po…