In the park by the River On a Saturday evening The one with the blossoms in spring There’s a girl in a pink sweatshirt. The zip up hoodie kind. Walking her dog. There’s a man in a vest. He asks about her dog. Then he hoots, hollers, whistles, and yells. She’s beautiful. He’s right. She’s… Continue reading The Pink Sweatshirt
Tag: intersectional
International Women’s Day
Yes yes... I’m a bloody feminist and I’m proud of it. I’m an intersectional feminist, I think all uterus havers, female identifying, cis, and in between who want to be included should be. No exceptions. Please google Intersectional Feminism before you read any further and apply that definition to everything I say from here on… Continue reading International Women’s Day
Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 81
*disclosure: This the conclusion to a week long journal project I wrote in June 2020. This was written over two months later on September 3rd . I spent the first week of June 2020 starting a journey to understand and educate myself on racism in America and world wide, to understand my own racism and… Continue reading Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 81
Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 7
*disclosure: This is an excerpt from a journal I kept the second week of June 2020. I spent this week starting a journey to understand and educate myself on racism in America and world wide, to understand my own racism and to start to work that I will be doing everyday for the rest of… Continue reading Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 7
Writing my Grief: Day 3
Day Three: 6.2.2020 You've made it this far. Keep showing up. Today's prompt is about living in a changed world, finding ways to live in the changed world: "I was living in a rainforest. I knew the trees and the frogs, the lush green life. With no warning, I got shoved into the desert. I… Continue reading Writing my Grief: Day 3
Activism Actions: From One White Person to Another, Day 4
*disclosure: This is an excerpt from a journal I kept the second week of June 2020. I spent this week starting a journey to understand and educate myself on racism in America and world wide, to understand my own racism and to start to work that I will be doing everyday for the rest of… Continue reading Activism Actions: From One White Person to Another, Day 4
Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 3
*disclosure: this is an excerpt from a journal I kept the second week of June 2020. It contains my thoughts and feelings as I worked hard to educate myself about racism in America and world wide. Specifically as I came to know my own racism and privilege. It was a week that started a journey… Continue reading Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 3
Picking the Pen back up
I kept writing, but couldn't find the emotional 'pagh' to post. Which is okay. I'm working accepting my own need for a break so soon after I'd gotten started. I've spent the last several days going through what I have written and queuing it up for posting. Most of it is related to racism and… Continue reading Picking the Pen back up
Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 2
*disclosure.. this is an excerpt from a journal I kept during the second week of June 2020, documenting my own thoughts and feelings as I started to work on understanding racism in America and world wide, specifically my own racism and my privilege. I would encourage you to go back and read Day 1, if… Continue reading Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 2
Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 1
( I would encourage anyone who thinks that this Amplifying Melanated Voices challenge sounds good, to try it. You might be the only one doing it that week. But it really changed my outlook... my feed. Everything.) Day one: #AmplifyMelanatedVoices I’m muted. At least I am on Instagram, but see I process through writing and… Continue reading Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 1
Coffee & Conundrums 