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RE: shadow work is fun for the entire family! a poetic response to white guilt
i've had a really limited tolerance for white guilt for the past few years, ever since getting to a better place on my own white guilt (which wasn't easy!). i wish more people leaned into theirs and did the work that you've done to read and to think and to reflect. and I wish i were better at midwifing other white folks thru these contractions! but it's hard to soothe existental threat, which unfortunately seems to be bound up in whiteness for so many
yes, so much this
it's very human work... and midwiving the contractions is a purrrfect analogy. i'm feeling called to continue trying to create spaces for white folx to process it.... getting the message in recent years that it certainly is white folx job to teach other white folx (not black or brown ppl's job)... so many just prefer ignore-ance.... and obv with trump in the white house that is a huge symbol right there with where many people are at. sometimes it seems unscalable --- that divide.......... but yeah... we need to lean in <3
i think the biggest reason it seems unscalable- for me, at least!-- is because we could very easily fall in or get hurt or perhaps even worse, we could experience The Unknown!!! And that triggers really intense responses in anyone, regardless of where they're coming from. But to me the thing that's on the other side-- relationships, wholeness, Beloved Community, what have you-- is so totally worth realizing that we have all the tools and technologies we need to pass safely to the other side-- things like conversation and compromise and community that we all have innate access to... how wonderful of you to try to make spaces to do this work!
and if you're into midwifery, are you familiar with Mary Breckinridge? ugh what a badass