The last two weeks have been mentally and emotionally exhausting. If they haven’t been I suggest you check in with the world. I can’t imagine how it must feel for Black, Brown, and other POC.
I will acknowledge now, before I get any further; I have and will continue to mess up. Please, let me know. I am human and learning. I am working on addressing my own racism.
I have been thinking about how I can continue the work I’ve started, how I can best share information, communicate thoughts, and do the work the best way I know how.
And so, I came up with an idea, ‘Activism Action’. Which will be a project that inhabits all of my social accounts.
Through this I will share my own actions… the work that I have done and am doing. I will share the work that others are doing. Hopefully it will help to support, lift up, and encourage. I hope it will inspire. I hope that others will share with me what they are doing.
While my goal is for this to be actions and allyship primarily with the Black and other POC who have been systemically oppressed by white people, I will also use this to share work being done to serve other marginalized groups.
To share more…. I am also passionate about the environment. I am an intersectional feminist, bisexual, and working on a research project on health literacy in the d/Deaf community. I work kids of all different abilities, backgrounds, and needs. I’m a boiling intersection of all this stuff and writing about it helps me to process it. Most importantly I am aware of how connected it all is.
All lives can’t matter until black lives matter. Our environment can’t be a priority for everyone until basic needs are being met. Women won’t get the equity they need without all women. And so on and so forth. This work isn’t just for our Black brothers and sisters. It’s for all of us. When we benefit from, or participate in the oppression of one group, it tears away a piece of us.
It’s all connected. The work looks different for everyone. Each of us must do the work within ourselves. We need to find ways to fellowship and build these bridges. It’s not going to be all smiles and fists raised in victory, it won’t all be obvious, hard, fun, big, small, or easy. The work comes in all shapes and sizes, so lets get started.
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