When we look back at historical episodes, and especially social justice movements, it is too easy to see moments in isolation, and to want to identify dramatic turning points. We lose sight of the slow, determined action that always comes before a change; the decades of organizing before the moment of transformation. The people who do the most work to transform society and end its inequalities have nearly always been those most marginalized by the things they fight, and yet they are seldom the ones that get the credit.
