They set out to change the world, turning trauma and injustice into radical love. A preacher, a poet, and a love story told across civil rights, liberation, and the long work of recovery.
This is a love story between two charismatic activists, Reverend Cecil Williams and poet Laureate Janice Mirikitani, who stepped into movements and transformed them with radical inclusivity and love. Love for justice, love for humanity and love for each other. From civil rights, LGBTQ+ liberation, criminal justice, Asian American identity to addiction and recovery together Janice and Cecil braided faith and art as they set out to change the world.
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I began to refer to what Janice and I had as “this love”... In life, love was everywhere; at Glide, we had the chance to love unconditionally; but “this love” I had with Janice was intimate, profound, and daring.
- Cecil Williams