He teaches Chinese and Indian Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2005. Gard Jameson is the host for Valerie Kaur’s Global Read. Resource: Visit Valerie’s website ( ) to learn about the Revolutionary Love Learning Home. A daughter of Sikh farmers in California’s heartland, Valarie earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School.

Valarie has been a regular TV commentator on MSNBC and contributor to CNN, NPR, PBS, the Hill, Huffington Post, and the Washington Post. She founded Groundswell Movement, Faithful Internet, and the Yale Visual Law Project to inspire and equip advocates at the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and justice.

In the last twenty years, Valarie has won policy change on multiple fronts – hate crimes, racial profiling, immigration detention, solitary confinement, Internet freedom, and more. Her question “Is this the darkness of the tomb – or the darkness of the womb?” reframed the political moment and became a mantra for people fighting for change. Valarie burst into American consciousness in the wake of the 2016 election when her Watch Night Service address went viral with 40 million views worldwide.

Valarie Kaur leads the Revolutionary Love Project to reclaim love as a force for justice. It just might be our best chance for our collective future. Revolutionary love is medicine for our times. See No Stranger is a practical guide to changing the world, a synthesis of wisdom, a chronicle of personal and communal history – all joined together by a story of awakening. Drawing from the wisdom of sages, scientists, and activists, Kaur reclaims love as an active, public, and revolutionary force that creates new possibilities for ourselves, our communities, and our world. Kaur takes readers through her own riveting journey – as a brown girl growing up in California farmland finding her place in the world as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11 as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guantanamo Bay as an activist working with communities recovering from xenophobic attacks and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with sexual assault and police violence. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change: It is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a nation. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are a part of me I do not yet know. How do we labor for the world we want when the labor feels endless? Valarie Kaur – renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer – declares that revolutionary love is the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. But is this the darkness of the tomb – or the darkness of the womb?

See no stranger by valarie kaur