Quick 🧵: Now that the anecdotes and the sciences have aligned to confirm that #WhiteSupremacy is ✨in fact✨ an #embodied experience,

I’ve been revisiting my own hesitancies around blindly trusting all-White, all-cisgendered male leadership teams of humanitarian organizations.
2/5 I’m reminded that it takes muscle memory— not mere thinking— to see issues of inequity when they pop up in systems.

When you’ve lived in a body that’s so rarely minoritized/ marginalized (i.e., White and cisgendered male), it’s easy and common for you to overlook inequity.
3/5 This is uncomfortable to hear, but it’s true.

We’re learning more and more that #WhiteSupremacy is not— at its core— a matter of ideas.

It’s a matter of the patterned responses to the “Other” that are embodied in folks’ core beliefs, emotions and knee-jerk social reactions.
4/5 And so when I see no Black people, no people of color, no women, no Queer people with decision-making power at the “top” of a humanitarian organization,

I have pretty good reason to be suspicious of the “muscle-memory” making most of the decisions in that org.
5/5 You want your org to have #Equity and to be #antiracist?

You cannot do it if your org’s decision-making leadership is all cisgendered male and White.

The embodied muscle-memory making all the decisions will limit how equitable and antiracist you can be.

Period and Selah 🙏🏽
.As always, I HIGHLY recommend

#MyGrandmothersHands by @ResmaaMenakem

to deepen understanding of the embodied quality of #WhiteSupremacy. Menakem’s work charts a CRUCIAL paradigm shift for understanding racism. We can’t afford to treat #racism like it’s “wrong thinking” alone.

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Jul 9
🧵: There are many reasons why I think adding #contemplativePractices to Christianity is important.

But the main one is that the reason why we sin is often less about what we actively do

and more about the precursors to sin that we’re not self-aware enough to detect.

1/14
.Now, you may be wincing at the word "sin" and I think that's fair (I wrestle with it myself).

But for the sake of this 🧵, "sin" describes behavior that harms/dishonors the dignity of another person according to God's perfect imagination for wholeness between all things.

2/14
.So much of the sin or 'falling-short-of-God's-perfect-imagination-for-cosmic-wholeness' that we do

happens because we're unfamiliar with the sensations within ourselves that precede the harm we do to others.

3/14
Read 15 tweets
Jun 14
The more I’ve learned about #neuroscience and #trauma,

the more I’ve realized that the lies we’re told by society about #individualism, rationalism and human agency/choice have DEEPLY confused us about

why we suffer and how we heal.

A quick 🧵
.We desperately want to believe that we make our own choices based on our own logic.

But #neuroscience is teaching us that our decision-making is SIGNIFICANTLY determined by our affective/emotional state and the ways we’ve been socialized over time.

2/7
.Our affective/emotional states are deeply impacted by how relationally safe we feel within our social context up to and in a given moment.

In other words, the extent to which we feel physically safe and socially accepted affects what we CHOOSE and what we DO.

3/7
Read 8 tweets
May 30
Aight, beautiful people! Let’s talk about the movie #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce (share your thoughts too!) #Spoilers

First, I wanna make it clear that I think this is a deeply artistic and well-done illustration of the plight and beauty of the human experience.

A thread 🧵 Joy, Waymond, Evelyn and Gong Gong sit in the IRS Office.
.I believe Humans have only ever been meant for the here and now.

But the universal plight of being human is the way that the twistedness of the cosmos fractures us beyond where and when we’re supposed to be:

Pain/suffering
Anxiety
Jealousy
Regret
**Hope
2/20
.Even hope— that forward-oriented trust in a reliable source or person— is a secondary symptom of suffering, of the twistedness of the cosmos.

If everything was as it should be here and now,

there would be no need for hope.
#EverythingEverywhere
3/20
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May 30
This is an example of the way our #trauma can become our traits.

A quick 🧵:

1/9
.When we begin thinking similarly to the friends of the main person speaking, it’s often because we ourselves have experienced a lack of safety or betrayal in groups… and often respectively.

As a result, we’ve had to repetitively stay in a self-protective stance in groups.

2/9
.When we’re constantly put in situations where we need to be self-protective, that trauma response runs a higher risk of becoming a trait:

a way of behaving/being that we STAY in even when we don’t have to.

3/9
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