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We have to be intentional about rest. Stop apologising about your January return with your out-of-office emails
We are not machines. Nor do we have to be. Capitalism tells us otherwise. Rest is resistance. End over working. Abolish burn out culture. Stop apologising. Rest.
We are not machines. Nor do we have to be. Capitalism tells us otherwise. Rest is resistance. End over working. Abolish burn out culture. Stop apologising. Rest.
I refuse to work myself to an early grave. After 2020, I refuse to repeat the harmful structures governing our society. I refuse to apologise for taking time & all else I need with myself. When I look at how stress has impacted the health & lifespans of my family, I rebuke it!
Anti-racism work depletes my energy. It feels like a waste of my capacity & capabilities. To then get swallowed up by structures lifting the surface layers with no accountability.
Pro-Black and liberation work is a praxis that is joyful, feels healthy, freeing & like soul food.
Pro-Black and liberation work is a praxis that is joyful, feels healthy, freeing & like soul food.
The more I focus on cultivating, supporting & bringing into the world things from joy, safety and care for my community, rather than working reactionary and anti-, the easier it becomes to be self-respecting of my own needs, regarding access, care, time, boundaries, energy, etc
Some recent convos that are helping me gain clarity in this shift of focus:
"It's not enough to be anti-racist. We must be pro-Black. Everyone should be"
"We gotta design a world with disabled kids of colour at the centre"
"Trans women's liberation is liberation for us all."
"It's not enough to be anti-racist. We must be pro-Black. Everyone should be"
"We gotta design a world with disabled kids of colour at the centre"
"Trans women's liberation is liberation for us all."
If we create the conditions for these things to be possible, we can design transformative systems that everyone benefits from.
Yes systems change is a beast. So we must model the behaviour and capacity in our every day actions and encounters. The micro is how you do the macro1
Yes systems change is a beast. So we must model the behaviour and capacity in our every day actions and encounters. The micro is how you do the macro1
If we design, create and cultivate with and for those most proximate to societal harm, everybody benefits. That's the world I'm interested in. Of joy and freedom. I have no energy left to teach people in denial about the ills of racism, capitalism & greed. Not my fight.
2021 is going to be another transformative year. The veils have been pulled back for all to see in 2020. Either you are investing in liberation and freedom for everyone or you're upholding the structures of power imbalance and injustice that have led us where we are.
For now, reclaim your energy, reclaim your dream space, reclaim your naps, reclaim your favourite side of the bed. Rest your ass. I hope your transition into the new year is beautiful.
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