Triggered by Lights: Red, White, and Blue
What I remember most were the blinding red and blue lights! At four years old, I was very frightened as a police officer took me from my home.
What I remember most were the blinding red and blue lights! At four years old, I was very frightened as a police officer took me from my home.
The second you were born, I knew that something special happened in the world. You were certainly born a fighter!
As queer POC face unique stressors and forms of structural oppression, they have also pioneered unique forms of resilience and community.
There have been over 4000 documented incidents of verbal and physical hatred directed against Asian Americans since March 2020. Women, elders and youth have been disproportionately impacted.
“For those who have questioned our white privilege, I offer you this. The existence of institutional or systemic racism does exist. It does not make us bad people, but it requires us to participate in the remedy.”
Black people from all around the country came together in Austin to “develop new conscience toward higher education for the Afro‐American.”