Wow. Fascinating story about Leonard Francis. And I like your reframe. I think new stages of activism requires that we shift from external accountability to internal accountability. Like how do we do the work even if our privacy is undermined? How would that change our focus of attention, and how we interact and show up in the world? That curiosity can open the gates of possibility and true democratic organizing. There's a quote that says the greatest war out there is the war on imagination. All crises are often a matter of perception. Much of the motivation for change is taking down the "bad guys," like "why should we change? They're the ones doing harm!!!" Yet this thinking perpetuates systems of protection and domination rooted in fragility and scarcity, rather than the fortitude from within and the imagination to generate what could be.

'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."