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Throughout the last few years of doing this work, I’ve noticed that much of the conversation is still centered around whiteness. When mainstream conversations address racism, the discussion is often – as most things always are – centered around white people. So much of our discourse today is still very much trapped in binary thinking – white people against all non-white people.
To think that at school, I’d been studying a history pieced together because, once upon a time, someone cared enough to write long letters and poetry about the political upheaval they witnessed. Why should it be any different just because the present is yet to be the past?
That’s the first truth that working on the Living Hyphen Podcast brought to light for me: that to live and tell your story as no one but yourself is, by default, a refusal to accept anything that might seek to bury your voice. Sometimes it is up to you to preserve your own experience, your own story. Someone has to. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be you.
Contrary to the world we live in that prioritizes fast and exponential growth at all costs, we lean into and luxuriate in the slow and meaningful process of building relationships, creating reciprocal partnerships, and collaborating with like-minded people, organizations, and institutions who strive to do things differently in a world that so desperately needs new approaches and new systems.
As the steward of Living Hyphen, a community whose mission has always been to amplify the voices that all too often go unheard, it is my responsibility to share, in no uncertain terms, that we are unequivocal in our support of a free Palestine.
We are committed to working across racial and religious lines to dismantle all systems of oppression and towards our shared liberation through our gifts of storytelling and story sharing.
