Posts tagged #history
Post-election thoughts: what haven’t you learned, acknowledged or reckoned with?
Post-election thoughts: what haven’t you learned, acknowledged or reckoned with?

In 2016, I told myself I NEVER wanted to feel that way again - shocked, betrayed, and most of all ANGRY at the ways at which I had learned to deny my race, even to myself, in order to buy a kind of safety that was NEVER on the table, because safety that requires you to deny parts of who you are, safety that is offered up at the expense of others, a safety that props up a system of advantage and privilege based on genocide, enslavement and colonization is not actually any kind of safety at all.

Today, I am saddened and dismayed, but my work over the past 8 years means I am not surprised. Because what I’ve learned is - this is who America is.

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#election2024, #history, #truth
Rage
Rage

Rage.

Rage for me is a sense of helplessness, of banging my head against a wall, of having arguments in my head with people who are not present.

Rage for me is a kind of insanity internalized from living in a deranged world.

Rage often comes from the kind of systemic gaslighting, the hypocrisy and audacity of trying to pretend that being anti-abortion is about being pro-life. That it is about babies, or some kind of religious or moral high ground, when clearly it is not.

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#abortion, #reproductiverights, #history