Community Is Resistance

It is no secret that our world is getting a little scarier and that hope is becoming harder to find and harder to hold onto. I know this personally. I’ve had to work through a level of fear I haven’t experienced in a very long time. It’s rough out in these streets, and right now, it doesn’t feel like things are going to get easier any time soon.

In moments like these, it’s important to pause and ask ourselves: what does resistance actually look like? Resistance isn’t only the big, sweeping, revolutionary moments we often imagine. It isn’t just massive protests, bold organizing campaigns, or economic boycotts, though those matter deeply. Resistance also lives in our daily lives. It shows up in the ways we care for one another, the ways we refuse to disappear, and the ways we choose joy even when the world tells us we shouldn’t.

Sometimes resistance looks like gathering anyway. Like checking in on a friend. Like laughing, creating, resting, or finding a moment of softness in a day that feels unbearably heavy. Choosing joy, connection, and care in a system that thrives on isolation and fear is a radical act.

But the most important thing to remember is this: resistance is most powerful when it is done in community. None of us are meant to do this alone. Community is how we survive, how we heal, and how we push back against forces that want us exhausted, afraid, and disconnected. When we come together, whether to organize, to celebrate, to grieve, or simply to exist, we are resisting. We are reminding each other that we are still here and that we are not powerless. Community is resistance. And together, we endure.