Feeling hopeless? Study Black history.
400 years with a foot on your neck will teach you perseverance.
activism
People in Power Want Us to Feel Tired. I’m Done Doing their Work for Them.
Power relies on force, and cooperation with force.
I refuse to cooperate.
Activists Aren’t ‘Other People’. What You Do MATTERS.
A thousand small, everyday acts become bold when they are taken together.
I know what I should be doing… but I won’t
I will remember again soon, after I tuck my own baby into her cozy bed in her tidy room. And I will know what I should be doing. But. There’s always a but.
I can’t stop thinking about the migrant children I met in a detention center
The more I learned, the closer I held her little boy to me, whispering to him that I would think of him everyday.
Though she be fierce, she is but little: why mighty girls still need us to do our part
She had hoped he would stop and she could pretend that he had never said those things. Because she desperately wanted her math teacher, the teacher who teaches her very favorite subject, to be nice, to be a good person.
Things I’ve been criticized for
Follow along and check off all the “helpful” things you’ve been told about yourself
A request, in anticipation of armchair quarterbacking about midterm outcomes
Ask yourself: what did I do?