Amanda Hwu, Monthly Sustainer

(She/Her)

Portage Park, Chicago

“Being a sustainer is so important to movement work in that it really gives us a chance as Chicagoans to be in a loving and right relationship with movements here. Crossroads Fund really has such an attunement to the spirit and the life and the breath of movement work, and there’s just such deep trust when we sustain Crossroads Fund that we know we’re also sustaining movements.”

Transcript:

My name is Amanda Hwu, pronouns are she/hers.

What is something that you love about Chicago?

I live in Portage Park and I love Chicago because it teaches me new things about how we live and how we want to live each day.

Why are you a monthly sustainer at Crossroads Fund?

What motivates me to be a sustainer is, first of all, the ways that Crossroads Fund staff are just such, so incredibly passionate, and they offer the sharpest analysis for what is happening here in Chicago. I love that when I’m a sustainer, I know that I’m supporting work that is pushing for an abolitionist future, a world where prisons don’t exist. And not only that, but it’s a world where everyone thrives, where there is abundance, where there is life affirmation for everyone. And I know I’m sustaining work that is holding an abolitionist imagination and that pushes beyond the parameters of the systems of oppression that we’re navigating every day.

Being a sustainer is so important to movement work in that it really gives us a chance as Chicagoans to be in a loving and right relationship with movements here. Crossroads Fund really has such an attunement to the spirit and the life and the breath of movement work, and there’s just such deep trust when we sustain Crossroads Fund that we know we’re also sustaining movements.

Transcript has been slightly edited to make it readable.