Welcome to Part of Me

This has been a labor of love.

Welcome to a part of me.

It's hard to figure out what is performative these days. We are in a time when employers are crafting emails to show solidarity, and pledging funds. I've been inundated with all of the messages and marketing. We are tired. All of those things are the backdrop to pain and violence, specifically state-sanctioned violence against Black bodies. The violence doesn’t just live there it lives in the experience of BiPOC in spaces. It lives in encounters and it lives in the culture of organizations. Our world is broken, and it is not newly broken. It is severed due to the consistent tears at the seam of equity. Racism and anti-blackness are built in the soil of who we are. We live on colonized land. Yet, every day we make a choice, we have to navigate that premise and show up in spaces and decide if we will be racist or anti-racist. To choose the latter, you are choosing a life practice that is ongoing. Becoming Anti-racist is a practice that must be constantly evaluated, sustained, practiced, and evolving with discoveries.