Today was my first of 4 days with NC State University faculty walking them through some healing practices (specifically mediation and grounding practices rooted in an anti-racist and community care framework).
I had a wonderful time and can’t wait until the next one. These experiences challenge me as I am still learning so much myself about the power and necessity of healing justice.
Here is an excerpt from the quote I shared with them:
“The Master replied, ‘You are not here to sacrifice your joy or your life. You are here to live, to be happy, and to love. If you can do your best in two hours of meditation, but you spend eight hours instead, you will only grow tired, miss the point, & you won’t enjoy your life.
Do your best, and perhaps you will learn that no matter how long you meditate, you can live, love, and be happy.’
Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself...
because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything.” -Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
🧵 I know a lot of us straight/cisgender folks are trying to find a way to respond to the #SCOTUS appointment by showing our support to our LGBTQ+ community members.
For some reason that is, overwhelmingly, coming out in the form of offers to officiate weddings.
I hear you and that's kind. Be there when the moment comes for those couples but let's figure out how to be there for all the other moments too. All the other rights and opportunities that are threatened.
There are so many LGBTQ+ people that are less concerned with a wedding than they are with access to safe housing, to a job, to healthcare, to adoption rights, to freedom from police brutality, to an end to the threat of violence and death as a result of who they are.
Hispanic means Spanish-speaking. Latinx and Chicanx people may not be Hispanic. Hispanic people may not be Latinx or Chicanx. it’s an outdated crap term that the U.S. government literally made up for the 1970 census because they needed a way to lump us altogether.
There are areas of the country where this term is more prevalent, even among our own people, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.