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Tell me you have teenage daughters without telling me you have teenage daughters
2nd time celebrating a birthday in a pandemic but make it fancy.
The other night we took an improv class, followed by a DJ’ed party at a local skate rink. Last week we took salsa dancing lessons. Next week, Bollywood. Super fun, but man I’m tired. Is anyone else finding that post-vaccinated joie de vivre is also just totally exhausting? Like, whee life is fun again but also I need a nap. I think it might be a while before my leaving-the-house muscles get accilmated. #vaccinated #andtired
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Happy birthday to our quirky, sassy, creative, hilarious, adventurous, coffee-drinking, potato-cooking, memoir-listening 12-year-old! @karishowerton
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I am gutted with each new story of an unarmed black boy being shot. A couple folks have reached out because I haven’t posted here in about a week. I’m usually vocal about issues of race. There are times, however, when the things I’ve seen on the news are so triggering that I find myself unable to compose words, stuck in a place of foggy thinking and mama-bear protectiveness, feeling like I need to address things in my own home before addressing them in public. Sometimes I’m so angry that I need to take a minute. Please know, it is never because I do not care.
Every death of an unarmed black person at the hands of police grieves me, troubles me, and scares me to death.
We teach our kids to respect authority, but our black kids have to contend with a country that expects their full and total compliance with police while also ignoring their VERY VALID fears of law enforcement. #DaunteWright called his mom. #GeorgeFloyd called out for his mom. They feared for their lives and their fears were valid.
What we are expecting is not realistic. Our police system is steeped in bias and unnecessary violence and escalation and instead of addressing that, we want black people to adapt. NO. The systems must be dismantled. It is broken. We must stop expecting black people to bend around negative bias and police violence because we are too lazy to do the real work of dismantling systems of oppression. The repeated shooting of unarmed black people is oppression.
If you don’t understand Daunte Wright’s impulse to get back in his car you aren’t paying attention.
