Week Four of 30 Days of Love 2025: There are Black People in the Future
We are on new terrain, but the work remains the same. Side With Love proclaims the power of love to end oppression and build a just and loving world where we all thrive. In this final week of 30 Days of Love, we honor Black History Month at a moment when this administration seeks to resegregate America and establish and enforce a global racial hierarchy. This week's theme is a bold proclamation of sacred and revolutionary truth: there are Black people in the future. What becomes possible when we inhabit this prophecy of Black resilience and liberation in our lives today?
These words from Interdisciplinary Artist and Cultural Producer Alisha B Wormsley are a declaration of resilience, commitment to solidarity, and insistence that victory is ours! It is a refusal to accept the erasure of Black existence, imagination, and liberation. It is a call to action for Unitarian Universalists and all people of faith and conscience to engage in the sacred work of co-creating a future where Black lives thrive.
At its core, "there are Black people in the future" disrupts all narratives of disposability, which sanction discrimination, inequity, injustice, and genocide. It offers instead a vision of boundless possibility. As a faith committed to justice and love, this theme challenges us to ask: What are we doing today to ensure a just and liberated future for Black people? Are we confronting the systems that perpetuate harm? Are we uplifting Black leadership, creativity, and wisdom? Are we actively dismantling white supremacy within and beyond our communities? Who must we be? What must we do? What transformation unfolds today if Black life and thriving are the promises of our future? What will you put into practice today to fulfill this promise?
May we move forward with courage, faith, and unwavering love. The future is now, and Black liberation is the path to collective liberation. Let us build it together.
In faith and solidarity,
Nicole Pressley, UUA Organizing Strategy Director
Showing up to meet this moment!
Side With Love is working across partnerships, coalitions, and staff teams at the UUA to bring you current and accurate information on the many pressing issues related to this Administration's unjust and unconstitutional actions. This requires legal support, following the lead of the most impacted, and refining systems for consistent learning and action. We thank you for your patience as we navigate this chaotic political moment together. Below are three offerings that are coming soon to support your communities in showing up in our collective struggle for justice.
Grounded, Resilient, & Responsible Toolkit
We will provide helpful guidance to navigate political action in our current climate. As we all discern our risk in answering the call to side with love, this tool will support you in aligning our intentions with our impact for more strategic and deliberate social justice organizing. The focus will be safety, effective partnership, solidarity, and messaging. Use this guide to discern how you engage on social media, better understand the strategy and safety of protests and direct action, and how to use tactics effectively—coming end of February.
Side With Love Action Center
Help harness our power by joining in learning and action opportunities with Side With Love and coalition partners. The Action Center will provide weekly updates, issue analysis, and actions to take on issues related to immigration, LGBTQ justice, climate, and democracy. You will find these opportunities on the Side With Love homepage and via email. Subscribe here to get the Action Center alerts in your inbox. Coming end of February
Side With Love Monthly Meeting
As 30 Days of Love comes to a close, we are launching a monthly national call for faithful, grounded, and powerful organizing. This moment demands our attention, our action, and collective care. Join us monthly to root in our values, get updates and analysis on the political and organizing terrain, and move into prophetic action. Together, we will harness the power of love to end oppression and build a loving and just world where we all thrive. Launching early March.
