introduced to survival and healing as ideas that required practice—trying to make sense of why I survived. When I was in Selma, I rationalized that it was so I could do the work that I was doing. I thought the same thing when I was in Philly. No matter how hard the work, no matter how meager the resources, no matter how tired or frustrated or burned out I was, I always returned to it, not just because I loved my kids and I loved supporting survivors but because I needed to make the things I endured mean something.
