An Interview by Rebecca Wyllie de Echeverria
The Roots Coalition: A Queer Lesson in Movement Building
At first glance it appeared to be a normal conference room and as I walked in the loathsome college lecture flashbacks began. Then I realized: the room was full of queer people. We were everywhere. My first People’s Movement Assembly was stuffy, the room had no inches to spare and we were jam packed inside, but it hummed with excitement. We are all radical queers and we were all gathered to discuss movement building across and between our communities.




