But there’s a lot of energy right now on this campus. A willingness to have these discussions. The courage to make change.

Collaborating with you through this column has made me brave.

I hope it has made you brave, as well.

I hope we are brave enough to listen to the thing inside us that tells us the world can be different, and better, that we can make it better together. The thing that mourns and craves. That wants to take in everything and be everything and love everyone, and for all of it to be just.

I hope that feeling grows.

I hope that feeling pushes at our skin until it flowers from our mouths, until we sing it, until we are so filled with it that we burst forth into our own better world, right here, irresistibly, at this moment.

This feeling is anger and sadness, but it is also friendship.

It is the feeling of being in love.

 

Reina A.E. Gattuso ‘15, an FM editor, is a joint literature and studies of women, gender, and sexuality concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays.