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In The New Queer Conscience, LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility — that queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere.
Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today’s leading activists and artists. In this installment, The New Queer Conscience, Voices4 Founder and LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli offers a candid and compassionate introduction to queer responsibility. Eli calls on his Jewish faith to underline how kindness and support within the queer community can lead to a stronger global consciousness. More importantly, he reassures us that we’re not alone. In fact, we never were. Because if you mess with one queer, you mess with us all.
A short essay speaking on a need for queer community, based in the author’s experience on being part of the Jewish community. He outlines bold, basic points that calls for supporting others.
Honestly, 100% agree. I’m going to loan this book out to some of my friends as well. The idea of not just being queer and isolated, but queer and part of a global community, isn’t earth-shattering, however— it does outline some basic rules that I feel could stand for a long time no matter the community, but especially in the queer one. It calls for understanding. Having the backs of other minorities. Helping to unlearn the shame that being closeted has given people, and that society tends to impress on us.
It’s hard to feel connected a lot of the time. It feels often that being alive is an island. But does it have to be…?
