About the revolution
This is what I wholeheartedly believe.
If you are not speaking up against crimes against humanity you are choosing the side of the oppressor. You can talk all you want but this will forever be my stand.
As a teacher, a medicine person and just as a human fucking being, i have seen enough of this shit for way too long. We all know that social media is bullshit and that the mainstream media is well…. you know.
You see, I am a teacher and I do work in the mental health field, and I have been shocked by the silence of my colleagues, acquaintances and just the people that I have looked up to.
I have been disappointed in the overwhelming silence of the silent ones,
the neutral ones and the ones who say they don't do politics.
Those pages of so called teachers and spiritual leaders, where the f*ck are they?
Is this not the time to speak up and to address the lack of humanity that is displayed on our screens on a daily basis?
Is this not what spiritual teaching is all about?
To connect to the one-ness?
Maybe that's a bit too much to ask from people who have no idea what it's like to live a life of being oppressed.
The love and light cults can choose to tap in and tap out. They don't have to live it, which gives them the complete privilege to turn the other way.
People who are privileged enough to say they don't do politics have never been on the bad end of that story. Those people have not been affected by the constant systemic racism and oppression that many of us have faced throughout our lives.
The truth is that the story of the oppressed is not the one you read in the history books.
The story and the narrative that we have been listening too for way too long is the side of the oppressor, the colonizer.
The ones that have been robbing the indigenous peoples of their lands, home and culture, just to name a few.
Now this is not your every day rant from a queer woman of color, trying to tell you how to live your life.
Why should i.
But this is me speaking up for my people.
The people that I carry, the people that carry me and the different fields I am a part of.
The narrative is shifting and it took way to many childrens death to reach some kind of tipping point.
I have seen my community go to protest, boycott, work on themselves, and get exhausted in the process, but never giving up. Because they have always felt a kinship to the people around the world that are living in even more hell than they are.
They have been looking for ways to act, and looking for ways to make a change.
I am my community, they are me, and we are with many.
If there is one thing that I have learned over these few months alone, is that the schock will turn into hurt, which will turn into grief, and if you keep going long enough this will turn into rage.
And I pray with all my heart that this is now the energy that we will cultivate as a collective to turn that rage into a revolution.
The system only works if the people obey. The people will obey if they are scared, and this fear has to be seen as an illusion. There is nothing to fear.
All the demons are playing out in broad daylight for the world to see.
And we are not the minority they want us to believe we are.
It does sicken me and makes me furious.
I am also sad and I am also grieving. But mostly I am determined and I have faith.
And above all I am not scared.
Now isn’t this what healing is all about? To never look away? To keep connected to all parts of our human life, not only the parts that make us feel good. To heal is to feel, and to be able to feel all that is going on in the world right now is a vital part our connection to our humanity. This will ultimately heal us the most.
No one is free until we are all free.
And don't forget, justice is not the same thing as peace.
Sometimes violence is the only way to break free.
Free palestine, smash the system.
Heal yourself, heal the collective.