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What does it mean?
A group of outcasts find comfort and community in shared hardship and exclusion.
In plain terms
We are cast out, so we stay together.
What can you take from it?
Find community when you feel excluded.

Where it applies

  • refugee
  • outsider
  • social struggle

Putting it to work

  • build community
  • seek solidarity

Questions to consider

  • Who stays with you when others leave?
  • Where do you find belonging?

Another view

It romanticizes suffering as a basis for connection.

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