I love the content of this book, even if the way it was written was a little challenging for me to follow. adrienne marie brown presents ideas about leadership in movements that require a collective action that profoundly resonate with me. She uplifts the people that inspired her, notable among them Octavia Butler.

This book won‘t be a pick for everyone, but it had just the answers I was looking for regarding the relationship between gender identity and Buddhist philosophy. Gross is a second wave feminist so the book is written in a gender-as-binary perspective that is antiquated. Yet i found her points about studying the self to forget the self and her ideas about living a Buddhist way and supporting socially just movements to be aplicable today.

The history of humanity has unexpected twists and turns, starting with the fact that there were many species of humans. One of the oddities of the present is that only one species of humans roams the earth. Homo sapiens has been a destroyer of species (human and animal). Harari says we‘re are moving toward a global culture. He portends a future where this one species will evolve away from itself into some new.