A review by emmbien
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong

4.0

This book is both one activist’s thoughts on how vital community is and how they have cultivated it in their life, and also a collection of case studies. These case studies, illustrated through interviews, show the various ways in which community can powerfully exist outside of church and the nuclear family — or at least free from the oppressive expectations that these societal ideals often inflict. Mia Birdsong’s advice and ruminations helped me reflect on what I want and need to work on in myself. I think I’ll read this again in a few years when I have my own home and children - there were some parts of this which are not yet quite relevant for me, but I still appreciate her honesty and eye opening examination of what community means and why it matters so much.