“In this brave and liberative offering, Kate Johnson explores the strength of diversity and intimacy of community, prioritizing friendship as a healing practice and relationships as a path to collective freedom. Prepare to love yourself more and to appreciate conscious belonging.”

Ruth King, author of Healing Rage and Mindful of Race

With love and rigor, Kate Johnson has offered us a timely roadmap for healing and transformation. Through fierce honesty, compelling storytelling, and trauma-informed practices, she reminds us how to build relationship across difference and find freedom in every moment. I'm so glad she wrote this book.

David Treleaven, PhD, Author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

“Radical Friendship has arrived on time! This book is relevant, on point, and apropos for the world we are living in today. Kate Johnson has provided a thought-provoking synthesis of Buddhist understanding and the politics of social justice, race, class, gender, ableism, and sexual orientation… Her perfectly chosen words and bigness of heart point us towards clear comprehension of what is possible if only we surrender and let go into the perfection of love—love for ourselves and love for others, buoyed by compassion, equanimity, and the courage”

DaRa Williams, Buddhist Teacher

“Radical Friendship is a wise, ennobling, sanctuary of a book. It invites our heart to go deep into friendship, justice, love and conscience. It reminds us of the beauty we can create with one another.”

Jack Kornfield author of A Path with Heart