Here is a list of resources for UN-learning and RE-learning history!
Unlearning and relearning history is vital to understanding how we got to where we are today. We must understand our history, our true history, before we can dismantle white supremacy and make America anti-racist.
Here is a list of resources to understand what it means to be anti-racist and how to do better… We must do better.
“The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘anti-racist.’ What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an anti-racist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an anti-racist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an anti-racist. There is no in-between safe space of ‘not racist.” Ibram X. Kendi
Please also visit the history resource page. In America we are taught a very whitewashed version of history. Unlearning and relearning history is vital to anti-racism.
This post is a bunch of random photos I took while out and about in Medellín over the last few months. Most of the photos were taken at the grocery store, or on the way to/from the grocery store, because that was pretty much the only time I was out of the house. Several of the photos were taken from the balcony of my first apartment in Medellín. Each of these photos gives a little insight into what self-isolation has looked like in Medellín, Colombia, through my eyes, thus far.
A worldwide quarantine seems like the perfect time to share a book list with everyone! If you are interested in learning about any of the things I so passionately discuss, advocate for, and/or rant about, check out this book list!
I have bouts of boredom, as well as anger, binge watch my fair share of Netflix, and stuff my face with junk food, just like the next person. But when I am feeling up for it, I read, write, study Spanish, cook vegan meals, and meditate. From getting the opportunity to stay in a country safer than the one I’m from, to all this extra time to do things I will not have time to do if a 40 hour work week is still in my future, I am privileged!
Last week should have been my first full week as a full-time English teacher in Medellín, Colombia. But it wasn’t. It was my first full week in quarantine instead.
Here I am, doing something I do a lot of these days, eating. Eating a tostada. This is not just any tostada though, this is a very special tostada… Let me explain…
Through all of these life changing experiences, I have been given countless recommendations for countless things, over half of which I couldn’t recall now if you paid me. Yet, for some reason, when the focus of my travels turned to studying Spanish, I remembered that brief, hungover, conversation with the Canadian dude in Bangkok.
The truth is, even knowing how easy it is to be vegan in Guatemala, even a healthy, satisfied vegan, on a budget, I’m still going to all the bougie vegan restaurants, all the time. They scream privilege.
I just took a yoga class, in an actual yoga studio, for the first time in almost a year…
All the reasons why I’ve been avoiding yoga studios came rushing back to me…
