I believe we should question what kinds of work we are contributing towards and who or what the work is benefiting. Our greatest power is in making choices around our role in the future of work. We choose our career and what matters in this world. In conversations between folks of color, we often discuss getting access to the quality of life we all want under the existing system. We rarely discuss what and how we are prepared to get there outside of a system that doesn’t love, protect or honor us or the planet.

⁠Instead of getting to a big why or having everything figured out, I decided to stop asking so many questions and start training my body to respond to a wider range of energies.

While I love the promotion of self-care on social media, if I'm honest with myself, some of what I see on self care feels like Band-Aids and some of my wounds need stitches. They care I see only provides that surface-level cover.