Because despite our natural human frangibility, there does come a time when we have to be solid for other people. When we have to not evade, obfuscate, be liminal, be of two minds or a thousand. When we have to try to be whole for other people—and face their messy, sewn-together wholeness—which is another way of holding other people, being held by other people; held together, usually. Solidarity is not nothing. It is a labor—like building a person, a love, a body of knowledge. And that labor, its peopled dailiness, has a tangible, vibrating effect in the world, radiating liveliness like a
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