As a Black woman who has struggled with a health condition that is limiting, and has worked in the professional serving capacity for people with disabilities… I struggled with recent …
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Mother of Environmental Justice: Hazel M. Johnson
by TGJPby TGJPupdated from November 9 2024 Never forgetting the pioneering mothers of environmental justice and those who identified its roots in racism. She Said: “If we want a safe environment …
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Stop Calling It ‘Inclusion’ If You Aren’t Providing ‘Safety’ for ALL
“Institutionally, we still don’t understand what inclusion means. Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don’t provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in …
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Sister Souljah — The 1992 Moment That Shifted Political Language
Forget the people telling you: “There was racial harmony before we had a Black president.” “Before Obama all was great.” They are telling lies and there is NO truth residing …
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Don’t Ignore the History and Connection of Accountability Evasion in Violence, Abuse, and Racism (w/ podcast episode)
So we have reached the place where the n-word is actually Black American people’s fault. And that is part of the cycle of harm. Evading accountability. The concept of “the …
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Why You May Want to Unfollow People Who Willfully Turn a Blind Eye to Power Imbalance
As Big Brother Legend on X.com says, “I unfollow (Black) people who don’t understand this.” At this point in my life, I choose to disaffiliate with people who do not …
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Crossover: When Harm Happens But the Apology Does Not (audio/video)
Apologies are part of recognizing that you are a human being and that others are too. We live in a world with other human beings that doesn’t recognize that fact. …
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10 Signs You’re Being Asked to Tolerate the Intolerable
adjusting.being understanding.keeping the peace. repeat. Your cheek muscles hurt from smiling so much to keep others “comfortable”. And then…..one day you realize:You’re not being patient.You’re being trained to live with …
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When Disability and Blackness Meet: Over 25 Times When Grace Was Denied To Disabled Black People
There is a quiet cruelty that rarely gets named plainly. It lives in the space where Blackness and disability intersect. It shows up not only in dramatic moments of harm, …
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Stay Woke: When a Warning is Turned to a Punchline
Watching language warning about life or death flatten into a “trend”…. is frustrating. “‘Stay woke’ began as a warning, not a trend. This episode traces the word’s roots through the …