I saw a glimpse of the United States of America that I love and it was beautiful.
I spent the weekend with the wonderful 2016 cohort of the artEquity’s facilitator training. artEquity is an organization whose goal is to create a diverse, well-equipped cadre of national facilitators who can support equity-based initiatives nationwide. We spent a weekend confronting issues of race, power, privilege and identity. We danced and held each other and cried. Carmen Morgan, artEquity’s founder, said something that will stay with me forever:
The beauty of this group is what we’re working for. When we remove all of this stuff [privilege, oppression, etc.] that’s when I can love you. [Social justice] work isn’t just for something to do. Once we remove those barriers, we can be fully human and in contact with each other’s humanity.
I want to be in contact with everyone’s humanity.
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