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Stop looking for the helpers; you’re it! You are the agent of change.

November 1, 2018 by Shay

As we enter the season of darkness, the heaviness that hangs in the air is palpable. There is the literal reduced light outside which leaves many feeling out of sorts as we move deeper into autumn and prepare for winter, but there is also the internal heaviness that many of us are feeling as a …

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Categories Activism, Current Events, Racial and Cultural 1 Comment

An old tactic with a new twist: Attempting to erase an entire group’s existence

October 25, 2018 by Shay

I’ve long noted on this blog and in other places that the two most oppressed groups in this country are Native American/Indigenous people and Black people. And that hasn’t changed. Indigenous people were subjected to genocide that reduced them from being the dominant group in what we currently call the United States to one of …

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Categories Activism, Current Events

The performance of change and why it fails: A note to my white sisters

May 7, 2020October 2, 2018 by Shay

The odds are high that if you are a reader of this space, the events of the past two years have had you in a perpetual state of rage. Last week’s hearing with Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Blasey Ford probably felt like a surreal kick in the teeth. After all, if you are of a …

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Categories Current Events, Racial and Cultural 9 Comments
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