Driving past beautiful homes, houses, and highrises. There’s tents lining the sidewalks and streets. Trash, clothes, tires, and cans. There’s a lot of nothing . Like to hurry up and wait. It doesn’t make sense. So many people with so little. Next to so few with so much. A picture perfect moment. A picture perfect… Continue reading This Caption. Contrast
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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
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
Thank you Rachel Ricketts
Let me start by saying that I have only recently discovered Rachel Ricketts and don’t know her personally. https://www.rachelricketts.com/ That said in the last two weeks I have spent an almost absurd amount of time on her website. I came across her IG shortly after people started protesting the murder of George Floyd by police… Continue reading Thank you Rachel Ricketts
Coffee & Conundrums 