For too long, oppression has taught us that our differences can only ever be used as weapons of division.

Being different is constantly used as an excuse to sideline, to reject, to fear, to hate, to control, to mistrust. We are told that differences preclude community; we must connect over being the same.

But this is a lie. And until we reclaim difference as the true core of what community and solidarity are all about, we will flounder in our attempts for liberation.

Our differences may yet save us. But for that to happen, we must, through the long journey of learning and living, come into the skill of loving our differences.

We must each learn to reject the narrative that differences separate us, and regain the truth that has been denied to us: that our differences are the point. They are what truly bind us... when we are living well, the way we are meant to exist.

I dream of a world where people can come together, share a chuckle about our similarities, and then get on with the good bit - where we revel in our differences.