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I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Tell the Primary and Secondary Education Committee to give HB 171 a Proponent Testimony Hearing!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-t…

Speaking in English should not be a prerequisite for the world to pay attention to your oppression.

Are we agents of social change or agents of social control? From what I see, healthcare professionals (esp mental health professionals) are better at policing behavior than police. And then default to attributing poor engagement in care to mental health stigma...

My favorite mantra from my internship year, "Don't try to hold the complexity. Instead allow the complexity to hold you." Still working on unlearning my conditioned urge to diagnose.

📢 new pub alert 📢 And another one!! The second publication this month on the project. So excited to be part of this systematic work led by B. Andi Lee on racial-ethnic-cultural belonging. We developed a new measure! 👇🏾

Universities : We will help you develop critical thinking skills. Also universities: Do not use these skills to challenge how we operate.

Talking about racism, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and colonialism is not divisive. The divisiveness comes from actual racism, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and colonialism.

Sometimes, people or orgs ask me for advice about drafting a land acknowledgment. Lately, my response is to ask about their position on Palestine.

This thread hits home in so many ways. The things we endure just to survive and provide for our families... Let's call out your implicit belief, that yt feelings = Truth while our feelings = a subjective perception to be challenged and changed. Whose feelings matter?

This culture glorifies internalized oppression by rebranding it as having a "growth mindset." While I am still growing, I reject that I am *supposed* to grow in ways that maintain this oppressive system rather than challenge and test it. Don't confuse conformity for maturity.

Speak truth to power, folks. The truth will set you free. 🐦‍🔥 I now fully realize you don't need to convince others of your truth to be liberated by it. And there truly is no other feeling like it--liberation. "Happiness" is material. Liberation is eternal.

For your divine assignment, you will need to release any hunger for approval. Be at peace with rejection. Let it push you deeper into your purpose.