Every morning, before my coffee and without my glasses, I stare out the window. I cannot make the coffee pour any more quickly than the machine will make it so I stand there. And I stare. I stand there. I stare. And I think.
Pre-Coffee Thoughts
Intersectionality and Kobe Bryant
Intersectional awareness is, literally, being aware of the way that issues intersect across marginalized identities. It's noticing that issues both impact and are impacted by different locations on this web - and it's a web, not a ladder - of marginalization, this system of oppression called kyriarchy.
Come Back to You
Your soul deserves better from you. You deserve better than to be crouched in crowded silent shadows, trying to carve away yourself so that you have room to push someone else towards the light that you don’t realize is coming from and for you. You deserve better than what you are allowing yourself to have.
