But none of my history with Harry's story is a good enough excuse to continue to support the transphobic hate and bigotry that JK Rowling is supporting with her fortune. The fortune that I helped her build, like so many of us did, because we believed in the story she wrote around justice, friendship, and love. The very themes and lessons she's currently denying the most vulnerable groups of people in our society by advocating for trans-exclusionary policies and spaces.
Category: Culture
home sick.
I am at a loss with what to do about my home, sick with despair. But I can't let the despair win. That's what they want; they want us to be overwhelmed and hopeless. So we have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing down the despair until it's sitting in a tight ball in in the pit of our stomach.
Colors of the Wind
While the essay is a critique on the movie Pocahontas, it also served as a reflection point for me on the lessons and messages I absorbed as a child about the natural world around me, the history we were taught in schools, and how I wanted to change the way I moved through this life. I share it now, not because I am believe I am an expert in racism, anthropocentrism, or environmentalism (I am decidedly not), but as a reminder that we all have a duty to each other, the land we live on, and the more-than-humans we share the land with to unlearn the messages and lessons we grew up hearing.
...But Not With Haste 