social media breaks will remind you that a lot of this shit doesn’t even deserve a reaction all the time. conserve that energy for creativity, community, love, exploration, etc.
Across the country, parents are putting their children to bed, reading stories, singing lullabies—and in the back of their minds, they’re worried about what might happen tomorrow after they drop their kids off at school, or take them to a grocery store or any other public space.
i’m not going to lie as a black person the buffalo mass shooting has had me so anxious to go out in public. the fact that all of those people simply died for being black in america scares the hell out of me and i don’t know what to do with that