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Tuesday, 30 January 07
my weekend
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~marianne williamson
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Monday, 22 January 07
going to oregon
i'm going to eugene on wednesday. i'm going because i need a break from utah. i need to escape, i need to forget that utah exists. i have visions of pretending that a whole building on the utah state campus doesn't exist, and that i didn't spend a whole season fantasizing about what it would be like to enter that building as a phd student and graduate assistant.
but there's a problem. and its a blessing kind of problem. see, in order to pretend all that i would also need to pretend that other people don't exist. i would need to pretend that ppp, jp, ap, dp, and baby b don't exist, and hl, wl, sl and sl don't exist, and then the whole b clan - m, v, k, j, l and baby g, and then mf and her two - l and m f. in order to hold true to my fantasy i would also have to erase them. and that's the problem.
no matter how much i want to forget that this place exists, even for a short time, to pretend that all those people don't exist (and many more), would actually ruin the fantasy of my life.
yes, i have a whole fantasy. that i'm married to a man i am madly in love with, we have a couple of kids, i'm dr. me, and i have more dear friends than i could ever imagine. i have friends that i can honestly say i care for deeply all over the country. and all these people here are helping to fulfill that fantasy.
i could never have imagined 6 months ago being lucky enough to have such good people in my life. when i was still in eugene getting ready to leave i got warnings about the mormons, and the conservatives. how could i ever form community with such people? it will be so hard for someone like me here. they say that people who aren't members have horns. they they they.
and they all understand who i am. they all know i'm a whacky liberal from eugene who is going to spend a weekend at an intentional community, on a commune, helping people get deeply in touch with their feelings. and they don't care.
what they care about more is the state of my heart. they care that i am a caring person who has compassion for others. they care that i am a good friend, that i'm trying my best to be the best i can be in each moment, that i acknowlege the beautiful humanity in each and every person. in some ways they are the kinds of friends i have always fantasized about.
no, not that my friends in oregon are awful friends, but.. different. my friendships with these people, well.. the care they have for me is something that i'm humbled by on a daily basis. the way they take care of me, the way they look out for me, its simply unbelieveable. and that i can do the same for them to the point where they don't feel like i'm just taking from them all the time says a lot about me. its a great compliment and testament to the fact that i am a good person.
and so, no matter how much i want to forget about this place, i can't. these friends here have gotten under my skin, and honestly, i want to keep them there. (okay, that was gross, lets use, instead - in my heart.) i don't want to forget them, even pretend.
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Friday, 19 January 07
the high of being called dr. better fucking be worth it.
yes, the curse words have come back to this blog. (did they ever leave?)
btw. being a phd student sucks. i mean, if you are reading this blog and contemplating being a phd student, don't do it. really and truly. just step away from your application and go find a job. the worst job you find will be better than a phd program.
today i had flash backs to a conversation i had with a friend mk. mk gave maj so much wisdom as she was starting LEAD and i was fortunate to get to know her during my short tenure at LEAD. i spent a lot of last summer debating about whether to come to usu or to stay and try to fund myself a position at LEAD. mk said something along the lines of 'go and try it, i wish i had had the chance.' today as i revisited that conversation i surprised myself with the thought that mk was wrong. i even contemplated calling her and telling her that, and then asking for some wisdom. and then i started crying (like i am now).
i hate this process. i really do. but, see i remember growing up and my dad telling me that i quit things. well, at one point i decided that dad was right and i needed to quit quitting. so, unfortunately i can't quit. and so i'm just left to sit and suffer and warn others.
don't do it. just don't do it. it sucks, it sucks royally.
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winter in utah bites
just a quick, complainy, entry: winter in utah bites. i've now been in my office for 1/2 hour and my legs are still thawing out from my 15 minute (with a detour through the student center) walk up the hill to my building. if its gonna be this cold, could we at least have some snow? okay, thats a lie - could we have enough snow so that I could go x-country ski behind the hyper during lunch? at least today it was a whopping 6 by the time i got to my office, instead of -2 like yesterday. (that would be farenheit, NOT celcius) :P
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Thursday, 18 January 07
ain't it goregous?
from the eugene weekly
A Room of Their Own
Teen center opens to anticipation, elation
BY SUZI STEFFEN
Last February, Terra Williams was pumped. A co-coordinator for LEAD's teen center committee and a senior at Churchill Alternative High School, she knew that the city had a lot of vacant space, specifically the old fire station under City Hall, and she wanted it for the teen center.
She and her peer Nuestro Lugar/Our Place teen center planners, along with real estate broker John Brown and other locally powerful downtown supporters, went into a meeting with the city staff in late April, only to be told that the fire station wasn't up to code, wasn't safe for the teens to move into. Road block.
But the teens of LEAD (Leadership, Education, Adventure and Direction), low-income youth who learn leadership skills and gain support for their educational and career goals, don't give up easily. Nor do the youth of Positive Youth Development's Youth Advocacy Board or Juventud FACETA, a group for immigrant teens. It's not as if the teens in these partner groups haven't seen adversity before or persisted in the face of daunting odds. So the teen center committee regrouped. The Eugene City Council was, by this time, used to hearing several teen center advocates speak during each public comment session. The youth reminded councilors, professionally and firmly, that the councilors would hear them again and again ... and again ... and again ... until finally, the city of Eugene, in cooperation with Downtown Eugene, Inc., agreed to give Nuestro Lugar a space.
And the space, in Oak Alley under the Overpark and behind the Downtown Athletic Club, wasn't exactly perfect. Holes in the ceiling, a concrete floor, years of being a storage space — not, perhaps, what the teens would have envisioned for their first center. But again, this group does not give up when faced with obstacles. After all, LEAD had years of experience meeting catch-as-catch-can in apartments, Churchill Alternative, Looking Glass' Station 7 and other spaces that didn't belong to LEAD. And partner group Juventud FACETA didn't exactly have its own space either, having met in people's homes for several years of its existence. So what if the space was dusty and broken? So what if the walls were dingy? They'd get in there and clear the space, make it welcoming for teens, make it their own.
And, over last summer, they did. LEAD groups and offices moved in last fall, and on Monday, Jan. 22, Nuestro Lugar/Our Place Teen Center opens officially as a space for low-income, multicultural and/or at-risk teens ages 12-17. The grand opening for the public is Friday, Jan. 26 from 6 to 8 pm at 965 Oak Alley. There, everyone can see the quiet table space in which teens do homework with donated textbooks, the computer lab, the space for counseling and mentoring from the adults associated with Nuestro Lugar and, of course, the couches where they can hang out, making friends with other teens who know what it's like not to have any place to go.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Caleb Pruzynski rediscovered the feeling of having no spot to call his own. The library was closed. School was closed. He had been to the mall with his siblings, where, thanks to a gift from his step-grandparents, he was able to get lunch and buy a T-shirt. "It's the first clothing I've ever bought for myself with my own money," he said. But that pretty much did it for the gift, and he came downtown for a meeting at Nuestro Lugar. Oops: It, too, was closed. And it was cold outside — though Caleb, a 14-year-old freshman at South Eugene High School, claimed not to feel it. Maybe that was because of his hat, which he wore because on his family's farm in Walton, the pipes were frozen; he couldn't get any water for a shower.
When Caleb stood up to speak at the City Council meeting on Jan. 8, Mayor Kitty Piercy smiled and said, "Hi, Caleb!" He's a polished speaker, looking his audience in the eye and sounding like a student body president in the making with his cadence and ability to paint a picture. He closes his two-minute time with a nod and a reminder that the youth asked the city for a bit more. "It is a beginning to what I feel is needed — and thank you."
Caleb and 16-year-old Elizabeth Sampedro, who attends Churchill High, are the co-coordinators of Nuestro Lugar now that Terra Williams has aged out of LEAD's target range. Williams remains a volunteer and, until her schedule at LCC grew maddeningly busy last term, she was a paid intern for LEAD, working on the teen center specifically. But where does Nuestro Lugar get money for its operating costs? Well, like most nonprofit organizations, it runs on donations and grants. And Elizabeth, Caleb and many other teens bear their spokesperson roles well enough that powerful adults find themselves ready to donate more than they would have thought possible.
John Brown, the real estate broker and new EWEB board member who helped the teens interact with the city, remembers when he first heard about the idea of a teen center. He agreed to meet with the teens, but, he says, "I went to the meeting with preconceived notions: I'll kill this idea in a minute. But when I walked out an hour later, I said I'll find you a home and I'll write you a check." Why? "Have you met Caleb?" he asks. Caleb and Terra Williams "had a plan, were well-spoken and were organized," Brown says, and they were also "honest, from the heart."
When the city said no to the fire station, Brown was furious. "It pisses me off!" he says. "What other youth group isn't afraid of being 200 feet from the police station?" But Brown knows how to deal with reality, and when the Overpark space came open, he looked at the space and helped Nuestro Lugar find contractors who donated their work (John Critelli from Essex Construction and Ethan Hutchinson from Rainbow Valley Design and Construction, among others) and a carpet, donated by Imperial Floor, to warm up the space. One of the reasons Brown likes working with LEAD and Nuestro Lugar is that the whole group, including Executive Director Maj Rafferty, Nuestro Lugar Director D Cohen and two other adult staff members, runs on a shoestring budget, leveraging what they have into direct help for the teens. From REI and SportHill's clothing, equipment and time donations to FOOD for Lane County and Papa John's gifts of food for meetings, the teens get what they need. "They make do with what they have," Brown says admiringly.
That doesn't mean that the teens don't aspire to more. Terra Williams, who grew frustrated at the lack of academic counseling available to teens at Churchill Alternative, was grateful for Cohen's support in applying to LCC and the UO. She's looking forward to a program, now headed up by LEAD intern Teresa Montes, that will provide higher education counseling and support. Rafferty is excited that LEAD has almost met a $20,000 fundraising challenge; an anonymous donor promised $20,000 if the organization could raise that much in matching donations by Jan. 31. By the end of last week, LEAD was about $2,000 away from its goal and at press time, an source who prefers to remain anonymous told the Weekly that the source would send a check to make up any gaps left by the end of the month.
Sampedro, one of the busiest but most organized teens in the city, is looking toward the long-term future. She's happy about the programs that Nuestro Lugar will be able to offer to teens, from computer labs and tutoring to dance lessons, self-defense classes and the opportunity to develop leadership skills. "I'm really happy that resources will be more equally distributed between the rich and the poor," she says, noting that low-income teens rarely get the opportunity to take extra classes. Brown's also happy about it because he sees the tragedy of letting low-income and at-risk teens fall through the cracks. "If you don't pay attention to them, they get thrown out with the trash," he says, and he thinks they deserve better. But Sampedro has a vision of more teen centers, spread across the county, within ten years.
One of the ways Nuestro Lugar helps low-income, multicultural or at-risk youth strive for and accomplish more is the three agreements. Those agreements, central to LEAD philosophy, were also adopted by the teen center committee. First is for anyone taking part in the center to stay in school or, if they're not in a conventional school, to be actively working towards a GED. Second is to obey the law — not to drink, do drugs, join a gang or otherwise get into trouble. Because both LEAD and Nuestro Lugar believe in social justice, however, there are exceptions for those arrested during civil disobedience actions and those who are in the country without documentation. But the third agreement goes beyond a rule to help the youth reach for their dreams. It's the "life assignment" piece, in which teens define and actively work on reachable goals in their lives.
Williams says that when she joined LEAD at 16, the agreements helped her focus on her schoolwork, stop drinking and gain confidence in her speaking abilities. And when, early on in her LEAD time, one of her friends died in a car accident, her LEAD group and Rafferty supported her and let her deal with her grief. "I remember that so clearly," she says. "I took up an hour of LEAD's time, and people genuinely cared." Her life assignments right now include being the first person in her family to finish college and, as a LEAD volunteer, being an adult advocate for the LGBTQ community. "It feels really good to have the teen center, to give a safe environment for teens," she says.
Other LEAD teens note the value of the life assignments. "I was going through life school portion by school portion," says 14-year-old Ben Ennis, a freshman at the Network Charter School, until his mom found LEAD for him. "It was totally open, everybody greeted me warmly." Now Ben, whose life assignment is "to learn everything and anything I can about computers and spread that knowledge around," has set up Nuestro Lugar's computer lab and plans on replacing the office computers. And, D Cohen notes, Sacred Heart Medical Center donated many computers to LEAD. With Ben's help, Nuestro Lugar intends to provide rehabilitated computers for the teens to use at home.
Ben's counterpart on the environmental front is Will Ross, a 17-year-old who attends the Center for Appropriate Transport and is one of two teens from LEAD to take part in the super-tough National Outdoor Leadership School. Will serves as an intern for LEAD during the second half of the school day, and his life assignment, he says, is "to reduce air pollution through the use of bikes rather than cars." He's agonized by the fact that people can't fix their own bikes because they don't have the knowledge or tools, and that low-income teens can't spend money on that kind of work either. "I want to build and repair bikes for cheap or maybe free, so I can eliminate all the excuses people have," he says. A big part of LEAD's adventure portion, monthly outdoor excursions plus a five-day rafting trip at the end of the year, consists of environmental awareness, and Will is all for it. He took part last year in LEAD's Plant-a-Thon, which will happen on a grander scale this year (the group has 10,000 trees to plant, with the help of McKenzie River Trust and countless volunteers). An unfinished mural on the wall shows off each component of LEAD, and the "adventure" portion is clearly going to be a celebration of the rafting trip. "I'm too poor for a week-long rafting trip" without LEAD, says Jenna McSween, a 15-year-old sophomore at Wellsprings Friends School who is working hard on the mural. Jenna says she's been drawing "since I could pick up a crayon," and as a creative person, her life assignment is to create a magazine for teenagers and publish what teens want to say.
And teens don't only want to express themselves in English. Nuestro Lugar's bilingual name reflects a commitment on the part of LEAD and teen center staff to welcome youth whose first language is Spanish. But former co-coordinators Itahi Diaz and Itziri Moreno got busy with school, and Juventud FACETA, whose members range in age up to 24, found a home of its own earlier this year with Amigos Multicultural Services at the old Whiteaker Elementary School. That means the center isn't quite as bilingual as the three partner groups originally planned. That doesn't mean LEAD or Nuestro Lugar have given up, though; the Wednesday night LEAD group is bilingual in Spanish and English, and many of the youth and staff members either speak both languages or are working on improving in a second language.
Co-coordinator Elizabeth Sampedro can't wait to see the effect of Nuestro Lugar spreading throughout the community. "Our main goal is to provide a place that's supportive, fun and safe, where teens can be themselves, grow in leadership skills and stay away from risk factors like school dropout, being in gangs or engaging in risky sex." She knows the three agreemants will help with that goal, and she also knows how valuable it is to have the space. She adds, "After so many times of us meeting in little offices or places that weren't really ours, to say this is ours, we are welcome here, we have the resources we need to keep our education going and get the help that we need that won't cost us anything, that's a really important thing."
For more information on hours, donating or volunteering for LEAD or Nuestro Lugar, visit www.leadteen.comor call 342-8336.
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Wednesday, 17 January 07
ps
my friend mel is on her second trip down to primary children's in SLC. her youngest has been sick and she's not yet found the cause, she thinks she's on to one, but they need a diagnosis. i know she's appreciate any prayers you have to throw their way. btw, she's also a doc student going through this.
thanks.
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its their first anniversary
as of tomorrow, the 18th, it will be one year with my new boobs. yes, i still like them. yes, in fact, i still love them. yes, it was one of the best things i've EVER done for my body.
and in other news.
well, there isn't. there just simply isn't any other news. though i did have a nice conversation with ykpd today. i'll admit, there have been days since i came here that i've glared at him with great disgust, but then i have meetings like i did with him today and i'm gladly reminded why i came here.
i have a lot work to do this semester. i'm trying not to panic too much, i'm just trying to take it day by day. trying to get done what i need to get done. i've got a lot of writing to do, which i'm not looking forward too, which should start over the weekend. agh.
BUT i'm heading to oregon in a week. YEAH. i already told ygpd i would only be working a slight bit, my main focus for the weekend is HoN. i need to spend lots of time being held by those beautiful people there. AND if all goes as planned, i get to be at the grand opening of the teen center. there i'll get to hug a lot of people that i hold so dearly to my heart. i can't wait. no, i can't wait to get home and be held. i'll probably cry as my train arrives at the Eugene station.
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Monday, 15 January 07
desert
i keep thinking i should write about living in the desert. i've never lived in the desert before. i've visited the desert, i've camped in the desert, i've run rivers in the desert, flown over and driven through, but never moved all my stuff, my cats, and i to actually live in it.
when i first got here in august, about 2 weeks into being here, i realized i was experiencing a high every day. i thought it was the hight of the new experience, finally getting to the place i'd thought about non-stop since march 29th, but i soon realized it wasn't that --> this place was not that exciting. i finally realized it was the sun. the sun at 4500ft is very different than at 200 ft.
back in october i bought a big container of johnson's aloe vera lotion. you know, the size container that i'd expect to last me a couple of years. i figured, it's cheap (on sale at 5.99 or something like that), and will last me a year.. because, afterall, this is the desert, so it shouldn't last the 2 years (or more) that it would in the willamette valley of oregon. i caught sight of it in my lamp the other night -- its 1/2 way gone. and did i mention i've got some lotion at work? and a little thing of it that i carry around in my bag?
yes, i'm nearly drying up. i'm tempted to wait it out, to see how long i could go without slathering myself up every couple of days, but i just get too dang itchy after a bath. i simply cannot sit in class itching my butt. no, thats impolite, and mormons, well, mormons are very polite. far more polite than your average eugene hippie - type.
(sorry, had to take a moment to go slather on some lotion. i'd just taken a bath and was drying off while writing the first part of the post)
mold is not a problem in utah. i remember when i went to baja with my friends p, t and g, we talked about how good it was that the mold all over the van, and the figurative mold that had grown on our souls, was able to dry up. my kitchen is now and odd science experiment --> only because i'm lazy. i notice that if i leave out fruit peels, or detritus from juicing it doesn't get moldy and icky, instead it dries up. everything dries up. i used to be able to leave cookies out of their wrappings so that they would get softer, but now, now if i do that they only get harder.
so the point? i don't know if there is a point. this living in the desert is bringing its challenges. for the first time ever i'm seriously considering going out and getting a humidifier, because i'm tired of the snot in my nose drying up and being impossible to blow out. and i don't like having to use my teapot to humidify things, why? because the heat from the burner only cancels out any benefit i get.
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Friday, 12 January 07
5
there's no magical representation in the number 5 this morning, except that after a brief discussion about how cold it is outside, i just checked the temperature. its 5 degrees, which is a relief to me, because as i was walking up the hill i was a bit too cold, and i kept running my friend's words about how cold it gets here through my head. i was worried that i was not dealing well with weather in the teens.
yesterday i finally decided to start playing alix olson the background of my work day. i'm not sure what a good idea that is, because i have a difficult time concentrating when alix is playing. but, on the other hand, if i hadn't turned on alix i wouldn't have found the laughter that i so desperately needed.
things are difficult here. i have a project that i'm rather tired of, that i'm less than 1/5 through. there is a situation in my work place that made me angry, but on wednesday i finally found the sadness. i found the sadness, and exhaustion with the situation. i've found in sadness there is humility, and its not only an internal humility, its also a humility that others can see. it made talking to two higher ups about the situation easier. i didn't care about the anger, what i cared about was my life becoming easier so i could devote my scarce energy to more important issues (like the project i need to be working on in this very moment).
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listening to alix this morning, wanting to share that with friends around here and knowing that all my friends in utah are in a very different world and understanding that while i can share small snippets of what she says, i can't share the pieces that bring me the most joy. its just a different world and it reminds me that i do straddle very different worlds. being that i live in this one, it makes me even more grateful for her words, because she is a reminder of what i left in eugene, of who i left in eugene - not only my friends, but also a piece of myself. its a reminder i know i need, because this world is so encompassing, and the friends that i have here are such good people, that without these tangible reminders of me, i could easily leave an important piece of be behind. i don't want to leave that piece behind, and it brings me a lot of joy when i find how much happier i am when i put in her dvd. it brings me joy because it tells me that i am still that person, that i am still a person who embraces alix's message with all her heart.
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Monday, 8 January 07
intentions
Since starting to attend Heart of Now on a regular basis as both a student and assistant I have become a great believer in intention.
At the start of every course everyone states an intention. What do we want to get out of the weekend, or how do we want to be over the weekend, or what do we hope for for the weekend. Its a powerful thing to do, and at the end of the weekend we all revist our intentions. How did we move about with them, what did we accomoplish based on them, did they change, etc.
Last semester I did not state a clear intention for myself. I basically felt like a dear in the headlights, and really only wanted to get through. I had no idea what it is I wanted to get through, I had no idea what all would come by me. I thought I did, but, in reality I did not.
I had a quiet break. I was supposed to go east to see my folks and brother but I cancelled the trip. I was a bit too stressed out to do the trip. I was tired. It had been an emotionally exhausting semester and I wanted to sleep, watch TV, waste time, do some work. I ended up doing a lot of soul searching as well.
Last semester I had a couple of people that I viewed as difficult that I had to deal with on a regular basis. They were challenges in different ways, but I harbored a lot of resentment towards them. My resentment took a lot of energy, way too much energy. So, I spent a lot of my break thinking about them, and my relationship with them. When I say that I mean, my relationship towards them -- not the interactions between me and them, but how I thought of them when they were around or not. I thought about the things I'd said about them, and how I reacted to them, when they were around and when they weren't around. The conclusion I came up with was that I did not like how I dealt with the difficulty. I did not like how I was, what I felt, what I said. I don't believe I acted with very much honor or integrity.
So, my intention has to do with those two people, and my hope is that it will extend out beyond them. It is my intention this semester to act from love, rather than anger. I don't want to stand around being angry, rather I want to stand around acknowledging the positive in people. I truly want to hold people in their vision, rather than their damage. While doing this may not be easy (it proved to be a challenged I failed miserably with one of the two people today) in the end I will like myself much better.
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on being racist
i posted this response when someone at another blog asked me what does it mean to be racist. i thought it was interesting enough to post here:
I am racist because I notice that someone is black. I am racist because I notice that someone is brown.
I am racist because I notice that I am white.
Race is a part of how we view society. Because I am a highly educated white woman I have advantages that that a highly educated black woman has. Our default in this society is white.
I don’t think its a matter of looking at who has oppressed who in the past, for me it is a matter of acknowledging that racism still exists, and as white person I still get benefits because of the colour of my skin.
To illustrate, from a wonderful book written by a man by the name of Paul Kivel, it is called ‘Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice’, some statements from his White Benefits checklist (and comments about my own experience):
- I live in a school district or metropolitan area where more money is spent on schools that white children attend than on those that children of colour attend. (.Yes, this is the case in Eugene, Oregon. I don’t know enough about Logan, UT yet to make a similar statement)
- I work in a job, career, or profession or in an agency or organization in which there are few people of colour. (Yes. In my lab there is one person of colour (out of 26 of us), and out of 8 faculty members, there are 2 people of colour)
- I can always vote for candidates who represent my race. (YES! YES! YES!)
Yep)
and on and on and on..
The work that I believe we must do is first and foremost on our own hearts. We have got to recognize our own racial biases. We have got to recognize how we benefit, or not, from being the race we are.
Then we have to change things. We have to become aware of our behavior and the behavior of organizations we participate in. When we hear racist comments we have to stand up to them. We have to be willing to be allies. Then we have to be willing to learn how to recognize, and then give up, our own privilege we carry because of our race. And if our race is not a benefit, I believe we still need to stand up to racist comments and do whatever we can to be allies for ourselves.
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1st day of classes
whoo hoo! its the first day of classes, again. unfortunately for you i don't have anything interesting to say about it. i'm taking 2, and a research practicum. whoo hoo.
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in other news, i'm going to oregon in 3 weeks. it'll be good to go, to see friends, to get a little refreshed. one exciting thing is that it looks like i'll be able to go to the grand opening of the teen center that LEAD is opening. that will be exciting for me because i actually did some things to help the project. plus it will be just good to see my friends, adult and teens. those folks still mean the world to me.
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i'm procrastinating. i have to do IRB stuff today. ick.
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