“Even if you hate the fact that you have white privilege and do not agree with white supremacist ideology, if you are white or a white-passing person, you are still a beneficiary of a system that oppresses non-white people… So you have a duty and a responsibility to use the privilege that this system has given you from birth to dismantle it - both within yourself, in your communities and in your institutions.”
- Layla F. Saad, I Need To Talk To Spiritual White Women About White Supremacy (Part II) Open Letter, October, 2017
Anti-Oppressive Practice
If you are considering working with me, it is important that you know a bit about my social and personal identities. Part of my personal and professional work is honoring the duty and responsibility I have as a white person to acknowledge, process and heal the oppressive framework I was enculturated with as a rural American female with white privilege. Ongoing, too, is my personal and professional work of re-envisioning and recreating individual, family and community cultures of kindness, collaboration, peace, and equality from the inside out and from the outside in.
Social identity
I am a woman. My “race” is white. My lineage is western european and mexican. I am cis-gendered and straight (though visually circles, spirals and curves are my thing). I was born and raised in the very white, rural northeast of the US.
Personal identity
I am a granddaughter, daughter, sister, mother.
I offer thanks and prayers to my ancestors.
I am a creatrix- a plant healer, a wellness weaver.
I am a love warrior,
a committed student of anti-racism/anti-oppression,
social justice, peace and liberation.
I come lovingly alongside the pain
and sing the strengths of my human siblings.
I am a survivor of trauma.
I am a survivor of postpartum anxiety and depression.
I am wildly
whole and wounded
tender and fierce
magical and commonplace.