our own selves

We can learn more about our own selves through what commonalities we share with other life on Earth, rather than carving out another way for Homo sapiens to be different, even when it comes to this small—or, as it were, sometimes large—bodily feature.

“If we don’t act soon … we will feel in our own selves that we will have lost everything,” says Monique Middleton, vice chair of the Bunuba Dawangarri Aboriginal Corporation.

“What animal could be a more perfect emblem for our own selves? Our precarious, fluctuating state?”

“As Muslims, we are committed to stand up for justice, even if it means standing against our own selves,” she said.

We really want to do it for our own selves.