What's A Love
Extremist?
Love Extremists wearing their pins (via Instagram)
OUR MANIFESTO
We believe the planet and every soul on it deserves love. This is our true nature. Hate, violence, greed and fear are shadows, they are false antidotes to a lack of love. These shadows must be accepted, understood and de-escalated with care for our survival.
The Love Extremist project is a cultural confrontation that supports new definitions of love in practice that embrace collective art, mutual aid, abolition, healthy conflict, death, dis-ease, rebirth, healing and planetary stewardship.
As Love Extremists we recognize hate, violence, fear, destruction, division and greed as part of the universal system and seek to approach these shadows, that exist within all of us, with love, curiosity, forgiveness, patience and strong boundaries.
We are committed to healing ourselves, our relationships, our communities and our planet through embodied art, conscious conversation, honest, accountable conflict resolution and personal storytelling that brings us closer together in community.
Join us around the fire as we heal with love.
A COLLECTIVE EXPLORATION…
A Love Extremist is part of an evolving exploration, engaging in conversations and expressions of love as a form of activism. We believe it’s time to redefine love as the path to ensure our human survival, not just for our families, partners and friends but for all people and planet.
In 2015, after hearing Christian Picciolini speak, a former Neo-Nazi and founder of Life After Hate, Ethan Lipsitz created the heart symbol, turned it into a pin and began giving them away to friends as a way to explore the opposite of extremist hate. The pins became desirable artifacts of self-expression and instant conversation starters.
When you order pins you can choose to receive two, twenty five or one hundred. They’re meant to be given away, talked about and shared socially so that our world can open to the potential of love in its extremist of forms.
Wear your pin, give one away, spark conversations and let's engage each other and ourselves as Love Extremists.
We want to know what you find on your journey, find us asking the challenging questions about love in practice out in the world and on Instagram. #loveextremist