Sherrie defines community as "something that is active, flexible, and changing over time." She cautions that "once it’s achieved, um, or there is this conservative, um, there is a danger of community falling so in love with a particular version of itself that it becomes exclusive."  So that in thinking through and creating community, the members should be always attentive to this.  If we don't, this can be detrimental because "when community feels like home – its a sign of danger...." and is dangerous when it is "protected to the expense of other community members or people who are in the proximity of the place that is home."

"I think the danger is that sometimes the idea of home is also like an idea of nation, it’s an idea of entitlement… and colonized space, that this is mine, this is my people, this is my, you know… there is an inflexiblity in that concept of home, right?"

Sherrie also calls for a more holistic understanding of community that takes into account the intersectional identities people inhabit: "I also think that people belong to many communities and some you know part of community work is figuring out my relationship to all these communities that I operate in.”