i used to work with children and teach them strategies to get through live on a daily basis and now my brain has been through so much these last few years that my version of work is “look i painted a picture of a butterfly :)”
white people casting humanity as “inherently selfish” will never not infuriate me. maybe YOU are inherently selfish, but the rest of us know what it means to care for each other, to be in community.
White people’s obsession with goodness, being told and seen as such, is such a socially and politically destabilizing thing. Like they do not care about putting in any effort or actually doing anything positive for people they just want the affirmation that they Aren’t Bad
Tens of millions of Americans are struggling to make rent & buy groceries - but bombing besieged & impoverished Gazans, killing almost 2000 children, is vital for their security? Good luck with that messaging in 2024.