is your organizing trauma-informed? are you reckoning honestly with the resentments and hurts you carry? we all have them and that is no shame

we cannot solve or cure one another's old wounds, and when we expect that of one another we harm our organizing, which is our capacity for meaningful relationships

but we can show up for one another honestly and authentically-- which includes knowing our own capacities, boundaries, and limits. any relationship where you are not allowed to have boundaries will harm you

it's so easy to get stuck in responsibility, or guilt, or shame in a way that harms you and, ultimately, harms the movement. to paraphrase sonya renee taylor, we are not going to get out of this with the same strategies we've been using. we must be rigorously kind to one another

following Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, "we need wild disability justice dreams" https://truthout.org/articles/to-survive-the-trumpocalypse-we-need-wild-disability-justice-dreams/

we don't have to be codependent with the movement! it isn't healthy or sustainable. practice emotional discipline. can you differentiate between a reaction and a response? who do you trust to hold you when you are being reactive? who can you reach for with your response?