(She does not capitalize her chapter headings.) Each part and chapter are components of her revolutionary love compass. It is divided into three parts, each with three chapters. The content of See No Stranger reflects both struggle and redemption.

The mass shooting at the Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Oak Creek, Wis., on August 5, 2012, is the subject of another film, and there are numerous short films on her website. While Kaur was a student at Stanford University, she documented hate crimes in cities in the United States against Sikhs, Muslims, and others after 9/11, which resulted in the documentary film Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath, premiered in 2008.

Her own beloved grandfather Papa Ji opposed Kaur’s marriage to a Hindu (he later blessed it) a childhood friend turned her back on Kaur upon learning that Sikhs are not Christian. Early experience with assault and bullying, later episodes of illness, and other damaging experiences motivate Kaur’s work. See No Stranger is autobiographical while painting the picture of Kaur’s vision of revolutionary love. Kaur is a lawyer activist filmmaker and with this debut book, an author.

But what if-what if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb but the darkness of the womb? What if our America is not dead but a country that is waiting to be born?”įriends will resonate with her vision of a nation waiting to be born: “an America that is multiracial, multifaith, multigendered, and multicultural, a nation where power is shared and we strive to protect the wellness and dignity of every person and work to save our earth and our collective future” a nation that addresses Martin Luther King Jr.’s triple evils of racism, militarism, and poverty with her addition of sexism a nation that grapples with its genocidal origin, slavery and reparations, including “the work of apology” a nation that confronts White supremacy and a nation that allows everyone not only to survive but to flourish. In her Watch Night address Kaur said, “The future is dark. I went to her Revolutionary Love Project website, signed the pledge, and pre-ordered her book. William Barber, who had invited her there.

I watched her 22-minute TED Talk and her six-minute Watch Night speech, given on New Year’s Eve 2016 at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic Black church in Washington, D.C., alongside Rev. When I read that Valarie Kaur, a Sikh, was going to be a plenary speaker at the 2020 Friends General Conference Gathering, I looked her up.

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