“I learned from her that love is sweet labor. “She was feeding her baby, as I was feeding mine,” Kaur explains. Kaur had her own revelation about love when she had her son - not just because she birthed an actual human, but because her mother was by her side, cooking food and bringing it to the hospital. “The problem is not with love, it’s the way we talk about it in our country.” If you find yourself wanting to dismiss the word, Kaur explains why. “Anytime I had seen change, it wasn’t our lawsuits and campaigns alone that helped, but lasting change happened…when people rose up in solidarity and approached the fight for social justice from a place of love.” There it is again. “I tie his hair up in a juda, send him off to school, knowing he’s growing up in a nation more dangerous for him, as a little Sikh boy, than it was for me.”Īfter this realization, she left her job at Stanford Law. Kaur had just become a new mother.She shares what would become a typical morning for her and her young son. A post shared by Valarie Kaur 2016, a reckoning of sorts happened for Kaur and America, when Donald Trump became President.
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