En Conjunto
“Hope in the cracks. Belonging in the ruins.”
OCB Vision:
To bring forth other possible worlds—alternatives to the current systems of collapse and despair—by cultivating hope, belonging, and shared life in the midst of global and interpersonal grief.
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OCB Mission:
To co-create a web of belonging and nurture life in the cracks of collapse through a politics of togetherness (en conjunto). This involves responding to climate crisis, symbolic and moral devastation, and economic and political violence with relational practices that resist despair and cultivate alternative, life-affirming ways of being.
About Us
We live in an accelerated time—where hope and despair rush alongside one another like twin rivers flooding their banks. This is a time when stories shatter and futures collapse. But we believe that hope, as Kate Harris writes, is not naïve optimism—it is a form of sighted resistance. It is the sacred, stubborn trust that possibilities still exist, even when they remain unseen. This is the quiet labor of poets and prophets alike: nurturing other possible worlds.
We are a gathering place for that rebellion of the heart. A community devoted to weaving a web of belonging in the midst of unraveling systems. In this era of climate grief and interpersonal rupture, of global violence and moral erosion, we recognize the ache of symbolic devastation—the loss of shared meaning, shared myth, shared moral imagination. We name the collapse not to succumb to it, but to make space for something else to emerge.
Amid this scorched landscape, we choose to listen to the cracks, the negative spaces, the quiet places where life still pulses. We believe in the creative force of collective imagination. We believe that community is not a luxury but a survival strategy. That poetry, like policy, can transform the world when rooted in embodied love and shared responsibility.
Ours is a politics of en conjunto—of togetherness. Not a fragile unity that requires sameness, but a resilient solidarity that honors difference. We gather around this fire not to escape the world’s sorrow, but to tend to it—to grieve, to dream, and to build anew.
This is a rebellion of repair. A poetics of becoming. A movement of those who dare to imagine—and midwife—another world.
We hope you will join us.