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Resilience: We are powerful because we have survived.


Mar 12, 2018

Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress. For social justice movements, the term has also come to reflect attention to resilience through individual and group actions. People are engaging in politics, activism, and the arts to improve their personal situations, but also move society as a whole. This year’s theme highlighted the lived experiences of women with events focused on the power of resilience that women, especially women of color, have shown, and continue to demonstrate, in the face of increasingly repressive policies.