The Blog

Reflecting on Senator Cory Booker's over 25-hour speech and the discourse surrounding it.

I am angry. And I have to ask—why aren’t you?

Not in a way that accuses, but in a way that truly wonders—when will it be enough for you? What will it take for you to see what’s happening all around us?

This isn’t about blame. It’s about recognition. About opening our eyes and choosing to care deeply enough to do something. Because whether we like it or not, the choices being made by those in power affect...

I have never been a good enough ally or activist. Never been a good enough, present-enough, stand-up, show-up-enough person. I’ve been too busy—too focused on my own unbecoming, my own unwiring. I have been present in my own healing but absent as a voice for those who need one. I’ve been caught in what some may call selfishness—prioritizing my survival, moving out of fight-or-flight, healing wounds not just of my own making but those passed down through generations of women who had no choice but...