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Me & White Supremacy (Prompts 25-28)

I am late on finishing this challenge up, and I must hold myself accountable. I truly wanted to finish this during my vacation in Colorado a week ago, but various circumstances got in the way of the necessary computer time needed. I must acknowledge my own privilege in being able to finish this on my…

Me & White Supremacy (Prompts 22-24)

Here we are -- the final stretch of the Me & White Supremacy challenge (Day 21 was answered on Layla's Instagram account as a comment). I will be posting 22-24 tonight, and then 25-28 later this week. I've fallen a bit behind in terms of doing the challenge every day ("on time"), but as the…

Me & White Supremacy (Prompts 18, 19, & 20)

DAY 18: YOU & WHITE SAVIOURISM I moved to the inner city about 8 years ago. My white family, my husband's white family, and many of my white friends' families live in very white suburban areas, and always have. When my husband and I first moved to the inner city, before I was aware of…

Me & White Supremacy (Prompts 15, 16, & 17)

I am back to sharing my answers to the Me & White Supremacy challenge here, as Layla has opened it back up to our personal spaces. She actually had to take a break for a few days herself, for mental health reasons. I cannot begin to put into words how grateful I am for her…

Me & White Supremacy: Update

Just a quick update - I am still taking part in this challenge, but Layla (the organizer) asked us not to post our responses in our personal spaces for Days 8 through 14. I am answering via comments on Layla's Instagram posts specifically. You can try to wade through all of the comments to find…

Me & White Supremacy (Prompt 7: Reflection on What you Have Learned so far)

The biggest thing I have learned so far, by taking part in this exercise, has been the realization that I carry a great deal more insecurity (white fragility) than I thought I did. How embarrassing and uncomfortable and absolutely necessary it has been to confront the ugly truth that I am more worried than I…

Me & White Supremacy (Prompts 1-6)

I came into this exercise a few days late, having discovered Layla Saad's 28 Day challenge after it began. And even once I had discovered it, I hand wrote my first few responses in a notebook - the way I do my Tarot readings and my therapy homework - and it wasn't until today, Day 6,…

Hyssop

Your name rolls off the tongue like powdered sugar - "Anise, darling," like some long-lost British second-cousin come calling after years of traveling the world in want of "self discovery." Your list of particulars can cast a lengthy shadow, as you list them studiously so as to ensure that you are flawlessly cared for: Anti-bacterial,…

Building Your Home Apothecary: March

O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic…