Balancing Silence + Action and Creating Safe Spaces
It doesn’t feel right to go back to work as normal today. This is a feeling that has become all too familiar over the past few years. I struggle with saying nothing and saying something because I don’t want a lack of speaking up to be perceived as not caring. But sometimes words and hashtags […]
It doesn’t feel right to go back to work as normal today. This is a feeling that has become all too familiar over the past few years. I struggle with saying nothing and saying something because I don’t want a lack of speaking up to be perceived as not caring. But sometimes words and hashtags and online sentiment feel empty when it feels like actions are what is needed. But I know both/all are important.
Lately I’ve focused more on talking less and listening more, specifically to POC, fellow members of the LGBTQ community and people who experience oppression on a regular basis every day. No single person represents the entirety of one group of people or identity and so, for me, it’s felt more important to spend more time doing work that connects me to people with different backgrounds and identities and stories that I haven’t yet heard. Not so I can “understand and be done,” but so that I can continue to learn more about different people’s experiences, histories and points of view. This learning will never be done, ever. And in that learning I’m struggling with finding a balance between speaking up and realizing ...
It doesn’t feel right to go back to work as normal today. This is a feeling that has become all too familiar over the past few years. I struggle with saying nothing and saying something because I don’t want a lack of speaking up to be perceived as not caring. But sometimes words and hashtags and online sentiment feel empty when it feels like actions are what is needed. But I know both/all are important.
Lately I’ve focused more on talking less and listening more, specifically to POC, fellow members of the LGBTQ community and people who experience oppression on a regular basis every day. No single person represents the entirety of one group of people or identity and so, for me, it’s felt more important to spend more time doing work that connects me to people with different backgrounds and identities and stories that I haven’t yet heard. Not so I can “understand and be done,” but so that I can continue to learn more about different people’s experiences, histories and points of view. This learning will never be done, ever. And in that learning I’m struggling with finding a balance between speaking up and realizing ...
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