Tag: dignity
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Police Violence and Indifference in Seattle
The violence and indifference of Seattle law enforcement grieves me. Seattleites of color continue to endure a culture of terror. Seattle police officers have killed numerous unarmed people of color over the years. Just when there appeared to be a lull, officers killed Jaahnavi Kandula. They ran over her in a crosswalk going 70 MPH…
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Good things come to those who…
“Good things come to those who work their asses off.” This is what the mug I’m using this morning says as I drink my coffee. However, the mug was made in China, where people who work their asses off don’t receive care and have no rights. As I drink from this mug in the mornings,…
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What if things were different? On Self-Care.
I’m reading a really, really good book right now: Who is Wellness For? by Fariha Roisin. She writes with a decolonial mindset, but was raised in Australia, lived in Canada for a while, lived in NYC and now lives in LA. This means that she has an international decoloniality to her. She is Muslim, South…
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Returning to Seminary, with God
I just wrote about leaving seminary, and indeed I had. I wrote that I was losing my connection with God, that it was making me passive about racial justice because we were reading so much about it, and that it was also causing me to invest too much in my teachers, their work and their…
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Share Stories in Community
Watching the beauty of conversations in sign language helped me see that language is first and foremost a vehicle for story. On a Sunday afternoon, the sun setting in Roseville, California, I walked into a packed and yet silent Starbucks. It was eerie to hear the rustle of clothing with no voices until I realized…