NEW! Chapter 3!

We’re excited to share this latest Brown Paper with you—Burning Love: An Invitation to Transformative Action!

We live inside a burning house, a metaphor for failing but still entrenched systems of racial capitalism, imperialism, and oppression. Burning Love invites us to reimagine what’s possible when we center radical love, humanity, creativity, and collective courage.

Chapter 2: Healing Love: Into Balance

In this chapter we ask,
“What is the worst thing I’ve ever done?”
“What are you grieving?”
“To bring our inner lives into more loving balance between radically and honestly loving myself and loving you, what am I ready to do?”

We hope you will share this widely with your beloved communities…

Chapter 1: Measuring Love

This Brown Paper flips the script of what is acceptable as a “Paper” on its head. It is not a “formal,” research-based, finished product of the traditional type. It comes from the heart and is meant to be used—like love. It is meant to spark dialogue and provoke.

In it, we are asking ourselves,
“Are we loving bravely enough?” “How much am I loving?”
“What else I can do to be in community from a place of love?”
“How am I wielding power fused with love?”

If you have read Measuring Love and you know Sammy, start here.

Are You Radically Loving Yourself: An Interview

Latino Community Foundation’s Senior VP of Programs Masha V. Chernyak sat down with Shiree Teng to discuss Chapter 2 of her Brown Papers, Healing Love: Into Balance. Shiree has worked with LCF for almost a decade—helping them dream, re-imagine, and support the grassroots Latino nonprofit community. Masha describes Shiree as “a healer, organizer, and a visionary movement leader. She has taught us that love is the greatest force in the universe. And that to authentically love yourself and others is a sign of a true revolutionary.”