White Women Your Time Is Up Too 07/10/2018 Tarana Burke founded the Me Too Movement in 2006 as a way to speak out about sexual assault and to empower women, young women, particularly women of color to be empowered and to find pathways to healing. I honor the courage it takes to speak up about this violence and all voices are necessary and need to be heard. Time is up for all the silencing, violence and oppression happening to people in the world. Perpetrators of violence should be exposed and held accountable right? No one, absolutely READ MORE
Tarana Burke founded the Me Too Movement in 2006 as a way to speak out about sexual assault and to empower women, young women, particularly women of color to be empowered and to find pathways to healing. I honor the courage it takes to speak up about this violence and all voices are necessary and need to be heard. Time is up for all the silencing, violence and oppression happening to people in the world. Perpetrators of violence should be exposed and held accountable right? No one, absolutely
White and Waking Up to a Horrible Reality 01/15/2018 Psychologically speaking – White women who have NOT completely woke up to the sobering truth about what white supremacy and racism has done to them mentally, emotionally and spiritually will be HORRIFIED when they do. You see… white women think when they start speaking up about racism and working to combat it that they are “saving us” (Black and Brown people). They often see themselves as White Saviors [racist behavior] standing up for “those” people, but what they don’t realize is, they are READ MORE
Psychologically speaking – White women who have NOT completely woke up to the sobering truth about what white supremacy and racism has done to them mentally, emotionally and spiritually will be HORRIFIED when they do. You see… white women think when they start speaking up about racism and working to combat it that they are “saving us” (Black and Brown people). They often see themselves as White Saviors [racist behavior] standing up for “those” people, but what they don’t realize is, they are
The Reckoning: Why the Reign of White Feminism Must End 12/15/2017 Now is the time for a massive social and racial justice RECKONING. We must accept that our oppressive systems are violently failing humanity and RESIST everything operating to stifle or kill the human spirit. We must acknowledge that our own self-interests and complacency have orchestrated horrendous human suffering and a society that is destroying its own people; that if not RECONSTRUCTED with urgency and tenacity, will lead us into the abyss of social apathy and anguish. It’s time for a READ MORE
Now is the time for a massive social and racial justice RECKONING. We must accept that our oppressive systems are violently failing humanity and RESIST everything operating to stifle or kill the human spirit. We must acknowledge that our own self-interests and complacency have orchestrated horrendous human suffering and a society that is destroying its own people; that if not RECONSTRUCTED with urgency and tenacity, will lead us into the abyss of social apathy and anguish. It’s time for a