Support 10 years of the Revolutionary Love Movement

This weekend is Valentine’s Day — or what we like to call Revolutionary Love Day — where we reclaim love as a vibrant, revolutionary force in our lives and for our futures.

It’s also a special moment for our movement: February 14th is the birthday of our founder, Valarie Kaur! To honor Valarie’s decade of courageous leadership, we invite you to make a birthday donation of any amount to the Revolutionary Love Project.

When you give, you’ll be able to leave a personal birthday message for Valarie — a message of gratitude, reflection, or love. This year marks ten years since she founded the project, and twenty-five years of fighting for justice. We’ll gather every note into a collective birthday card and deliver it to her from all of us.

We’ll also send you two Valentine’s cards that you can print and gift to someone who embodies love in action!

Ten years ago, when Valarie founded the project and began naming love as a force for justice, it was risky and taboo. Love was dismissed as soft, sentimental, or naive. But Valarie and you insisted on something deeper: that love is not just a feeling, but a practice. A discipline. A form of moral courage. A compass.

And from that call, a movement was born.

Today, love is no longer on the outskirts of our movements. It is shaping our language, our organizing, and our collective imagination.

As thought leader Baratunde Thurston wrote this week:

“Love, real love, not the Hallmark version, includes accountability and responsibility… [T]hat’s part of a long tradition of expanding the idea of love. That’s bell hooks. Love as care, commitment, and truth-telling. That’s Martin Luther King, Jr.’s non-sentimental love. And that’s Valarie Kaur today and the Revolutionary Love Project.

Revolutionary love isn’t soft. It’s disciplined. It asks you to love yourself, love others, and even love opponents, without surrendering truth. That’s a demanding posture.”

Across the country, thousands of people are showing up on their frontlines with moral courage — with love as their compass. From Los Angeles to Minneapolis, we are building communities so anchored in love, so activated by joy, that the cruelty fueling authoritarianism cannot take root.

The stories of hate that once justified cruelty and dehumanization are losing their hold on us. Together, we are telling a new story — one that builds a bigger “we,” grounded in our shared humanity.

Revolutionary Love is the call of our times.

We are ready to power our message to reach millions of people. If you are moved to take one courageous step today, we invite you to donate today to help us disrupt authoritarian violence. Give today!

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Donations by check: Please make your check payable to “Community Partners for the Revolutionary Love Project” and include “Project #1031” in the check memo, in addition to a note with your name and contact info so we know who to thank!

Via USPS: Community Partners, P.O. Box 741265, Los Angeles, CA 90074.

Via UPS and FedEx: Bank of America Lockbox Services, Lockbox #741265, 2706 Media Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065.

**All donations are tax-deductible.**