We can expand into policies, into infrastructure. Out of the community-care, out of the care of the individual for the individual, we can expand into social healing. We were made for this kind of communal care, communal attunement. I think we were made for a lot more than that. Self-awareness is never going to be sufficient. Self-care is just never going to be sufficient. We have to be inclusive of language of community-care as well. That’s where the sadness comes from, and if we shift that, I think those emotions can be experienced as a form of hope. Lament is not about the world being bad…it’s about believing that the world is worthy of goodness, that my neighbor is worthy of goodness. Whenever I am giving myself the freedom to experience pain, to name aches, to name my anger, I also can point it in the direction of hope and to use my lament to claim, “I want more for myself.” I hope that we as humans can learn to be more acquainted with the not-yet and the waiting and that fact that we’re healing as we’re constantly being wounded and we’re healing as we’re constantly remembering old wounds that we have forgotten about. We’re trying to find this one-size-fits-all path to healing for so many people…It’s just not true. When my belonging depended on believing in a white God, depended on believing in a God who was indifferent to Black suffering or who didn’t center Black suffering or all of these things, my faith and my experience of God was so small…I was more so experiencing this desire to belong, to fit into these spaces that ultimately didn’t love me or care for me.įind people you feel safe to ask questions with. Trauma can certainly be passed down-the effects of trauma-but I also think a lot of beauty can be passed down… hope and habits of hope.įinding a community of belonging that…will not reject me…even if I come to different conclusions than them….a community that gives you the freedom to explore and question and resist I think is the path to young people in this time, it’s the path to young people who feel so skeptical and so trapped and smothered. We’re a lot better at being tools for capitalism, for production…if disconnected from the pain, from the aches, from the joints, from needs. We can learn from the disabled and chronically ill community because they’ve had to learn what it means to survive a culture that really succeeds by us being disconnected from our bodies.
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