Happy first week of January! I hope you had a glorious New Year and feel raring to go for 2026. I'm grateful to have you all as readers, and honestly, grateful to have started Reconcile Journal towards the end of last year because now, my 2026 planning is filled with excitement for all the places I hope we can take Reconcile Journal.
We’re beginning the year by returning to basics, though not in the usual sense. This month, our featured research moves through foundational ideas that shape how we understand ourselves and the world: some psychology research as a starting point, another on conversation as a method of knowledge-making using dialogue between Stuart Hall and bell hooks, and lastly, questioning who gets to imagine (and belong in) the future in a closing piece on decolonising the future as a shared, fundamental right.
As always, these pieces will arrive each week, and are invitations to read, reflect, question, and respond. Please keep emailing or messaging as thoughts arise. These conversations are the best bit of what this project is becoming!
In case you missed it,
Catch up on some of the research we posted towards the end of last year, and check out our Reconcile Wrapped for a review of our work so far:
Thank you for coming back to join us this year. I’ll see you later this week for the first piece in our Back to Basics January series.
until next time
Amberlee from Reconcile Journal
