Social Justice – We Can't Go Back

Your Complaint Will Have to Wait

I am here to tell you that your feelings matter. But that your complaint may have to wait. Feeling upset at that time when an angry person lashed out at you for white privilege or fragility, even though you were just expressing an opinion?… It hurts. Maybe it was even uncalled for. Your complaint willContinue reading “Your Complaint Will Have to Wait”

Pursuing Social Justice with Kindness and Courage

Fighting for social justice is hard. It’s emotionally exhausting and fraught with pitfalls — uncomfortable dialogues and conflicts, frequently not getting it quite right despite best intentions, encountering emotional fragility in ourselves and others, and running into compassion fatigue. It is the work of sitting with trauma, ours and others’, personal and intergenerational, long andContinue reading “Pursuing Social Justice with Kindness and Courage”