“All great stories are love stories in one form or another, but the story of love and justice hasn't yet been told. With your help we aim to put that right. Welcome to Transformation.”
Some things you write have to be forced out like a stopper from a bottle. Others flow without much effort - like the quote above - which emerged from nowhere to land on the page just right.
It concluded a piece I wrote to launch a new section of openDemocracy called Transformation seven years ago, which was designed to provide a platform to explore the links between the ‘personal and the political’ in every sphere of life - or as our strap-line puts it, “where love meets social justice." There can’t be a revolution ‘out there’ without a revolution ‘in here,’ but the one doesn't out-rank or pre-date the other; they have to move in step.
