In her “Poem for South African Women,” June Jordan asks, “And who will join this stand-up…? As we watch what is happening in the US we are left considering the same question. She concludes, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” How do we maintain the courage and stamina to resist?

 

Ali Bel-Delgado is a Black Genderqueer seminarian attending Meadville Lombard Theological School. They are an Intern Minister at the UU Congregation at Montclair in Montclair, NJ, and the Senior Learning Fellow at the Church of the Larger Fellowship. Their pronouns are xe/xer or they/them.