Y'all ever have those days when you just CANNOT get yourself organized?!

That's me today. When I'm off, I work on:

- moving a bit slower

- eating something I really like that's affordable (and not itis inducing!)

- talking to friends that uplift me

- reducing my expectations for the day

A Halloween story of intersectionality and love.

Me, a Black neurodivergent man forgot yesterday was Halloween so I whipped up a costume so (unintentionally) obscure no one understood it but the wife & kids.

After we left the house to go trick-or-treating things got heavy... First off, I was Brody the mermaid lumberjack who had been contracted to work in the kelp fields owned and operated by his brother King Triton who forced this labor onto Brody.

I came up w/ this because the 7yo & 2yo were Ariel the Mermaid (Halle Bailey edition of course).

I will never forget how I was treated working the various part-time gigs I had from early adolescence to undergrad.

Managers leveraged their power to wield insults and dump their insecurities and delusions onto me.

They were petty, myopic, bigots.

So I sought more.

1/4 When I reacted to their slights I was "unreliable" and "hot headed." If I didn't receive their faint praise I was "ungrateful" and "entitled."

I thought that would pass when I got a corporate gig requiring a bachelor's degree.

It did not.

2/4

@nativelandnet is an amazing tool I have been meaning to share for some time now. You need to get familiar with it.

(A quick thread: 1/6)

native-land.ca/?fbclid=IwAR2n… This site will show you a map of the Indigenous people who thrived on the lands we now occupy. They had (and still have) beautiful and rich cultures with complex systems of governance--some had/have a level of egalitarianism to which we should aspire. (2/6)

About #BubbaWallace

I'm deeply frustrated.

Why?

Because it won't matter how rational of a mistake this might have been and that Bubba had no knowledge.

It won't matter that people earnestly, and rightly, displayed empathy and solidarity. (thread: 1/5) What will matter in the eyes of those who were straddling the fence and just got the courage to teeter in the direction of recognizing the realities of systemic racism, or to some of the folks who decided to start taking real action, is... (2/5)