Category: Belonging & Community

  • When the Backbone Disappears: Belonging as Infrastructure

    When the Backbone Disappears: Belonging as Infrastructure

    You may have felt it without naming it: a quiet thinning of the places that used to hold people together. The block that had a gathering spot. The community that assumed you’d show up, and noticed when you didn’t. For a lot of us, especially anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider, those spaces were…