“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde
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Trainings, programs and strategy designed by our experienced team to move your vision forward.
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A flexible framework for planning and evaluating that can be adapted to your community’s goals.
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Intersections of Trauma, Courage and Vulnerability: Living into the Legacy of MLK
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” Audre Lorde
Forward:
The Civil Rights Movement married the principles of social justice with the sensibilities of the Southern Baptist Church–which included, among other social norms, the idea that while “the Negro woman has done so much to bring the race so far…” but was “done at the expense of the psychological health of the Negro male” who is “frequently…forced by circumstances into the position of a drone.” (C. Eric Lincoln, 1966). In remembering the legacy of King, we must not shy away from the ways in which various forms of social oppression remained part and parcel of the movement he helped bolster. In fact, even as King did the work, his colleague, the Rev Bernard Lee noted that King was “absolutely a male chauvinist. He believed that the wife should stay home and take care of the babies while he’d be out there in the streets.”
An Offering of Fellowship & Solidarity
Turn off your computer. Put down your phone.
Pick up a feather, a leaf, a bone.
Marvel at a flower. Plant a seed. Take a walk.
Remember who you are.
Be generous with your love.
Protect someone. Take a stand.
Make art. Dance with strangers.
Find your courage.
Resist distraction. Be present.
Articulate your dreams.
Act on behalf of the next seven generations.
Sing to the stars.
Invest in what makes you come alive.
Open to what is possible. Decolonize your heart.
Thank your ancestors. Bless the land.
Remember who we are.