Tag: blacklivesmatter
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Clingy
I hate the way this makes me feel,A deep yearning for you,Seeing you, being around you,It’s one thing to feel it, but expressing it Only seems to make me feel clingy,Like lint stuck in Velcro,Pulling it away but some always remains Clingy, like hot air in a cold room,Your breath lingers even though you aren’t…
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Sitting in Discomfort
Three hundred and sixty five days and counting from the Summer of 2020. We’ve “finished” riding the BLM wave, we’ve listened to countless numbers of members of our Asian communities express their lived experiences of being verbally attacked, targeted and in the case of the mass shooting in the US- murdered. In Canada, we are…
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Oops, I Was Racist Again
Let’s begin by accepting that we are all implicitly biased. You got that? Yea? Are you triggered yet? Ok, let’s keep going. If we can accept that we all carry biases, prejudices, and misconceptions about any and all groups of people, then this blog post won’t be very dramatic for you. If you fully disagree,…
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We Should Redefine Life’s Timelines
A few year’s back, we wrote a blog post about redefining what it means to be successful. This has been one of our most viewed posts, and although I can’t say why exactly other than the fact that I think it resonates with people. I thought we needed to revisit the subject, but in another…
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Book Review: Hood Feminism
You would have to be living under a rock to not of heard of this book. I’ll admit, reading this, digesting it and then trying to sit down and crank out a blog post on this book, was difficult. Not because of the book itself, but more about how I felt I could discuss/share about…
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