“Pretending that only commitment that modifies long-term structures is worthwhile allows us not to act,” writes Melikah Abdelmoumen in Ordinary commitments, a tribute to the anonymous people who, on the margins of history, have made it possible through their commitment to chart the path towards a better world. Through her journey, and that of the women of her lineage, the writer offers in her all too short essay a vibrant plea against the immobility, indifference and denial into which the state of the world often plunges us. By recounting the paradoxes, the inadequacies and the impulses that fuel her commitment, she weaves a rich reflection on the links between activism and identity. Supported by the words of great authors who allowed her to define her thinking, Mélikah Abdelmoumen demonstrates the range of possibilities that microresistance presupposes, a posture which, like literature, has the power to open the horizons of the intimate as well as the collective. A gentle and touching essay, which brilliantly wins the risky bet of hope.
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