Founded by visionary civil rights leader Valarie Kaur, the Revolutionary Love Project inspires and equips people to build beloved community, centered on the ethic of love. The project begins from a premise that challenges contemporary culture’s reduction of love to personal feeling: love has been captured by greeting cards and pop songs as personal and romantic — too fickle and sentimental to be a revolutionary force. But the greatest social reformers in history grounded entire movements in the ethic of love.
The project teaches core practices of revolutionary love, backed by research and infused with ancestral wisdom, and produces educational tools, training courses, artwork, films, music, and mass mobilizations that center the voices of BIPOC communities. At its heart is a framework of ten practices organized around three directions of love: love for others, love for opponents, and love for ourselves — a compass for navigating the work of justice without burning out or hardening. In 2024, the Revolutionary Love Bus Tour carried this message to 45+ cities across the U.S., igniting conversations about love as the call of our times.
The project’s free Learning Hub at ValarieKaur.com offers teaching videos, original artwork, music, and courses designed to help individuals and communities practice what Kaur calls charhdi kala — an ever-rising spirit, even in darkness — as both a personal practice and a collective discipline for social transformation.
Why It Matters: At a time when movements risk mirroring the forces they oppose, the Revolutionary Love Project offers a grounded, research-informed, and spiritually rooted alternative. In an era of great transition, the project’s vision is to inspire and equip communities with the practices of revolutionary love to shift culture and consciousness across public life — not through a single charismatic leader, but through the distributed practice of ordinary people choosing, again and again, to see no stranger. For the Great Transition Stories project, it represents a living example of how inner transformation and outer action can be woven into a single, sustainable practice.
