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🔵  Share your answer to the question, "What does belonging mean to you?"
🔵  You are encouraged to read and comment on other's posts.
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If you need ideas or prompts to get started, here are some suggestions.

💕 What does belonging... feel like, sound like, look like?

💕 How do others make you feel part of the group? Class? Community? Team?

💕 Is there a time you felt a strong sense of belonging? Tell us about that time.

💕 What ways do you help others feel belonging?

💕 What do youwish others did to help you feel more comfortable?

💕 Finish the statement, "Belonging is..."

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“My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp, and somehow, I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage.”
Ke Huy Quan

Ke Huy Quan's Oscar speech, where he referenced his Vietnamese refugee story, is about belonging. At that moment, he proudly represented Vietnamese refugees and forever preserved our story in American culture. My story as a Vietnamese American is rooted in hope, resilience, bravery, invisibility, cultural erasure, talent, imagination, intersectionality, preservation, and joy.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is the window and mirrors we need, and the result is pure JOY.

🥯👀🪨✨

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Ke Huy Quan is overcome with emotion as he accepts Oscar - full speech

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Austen Dang, 3rd Grade, dressed as Kazuo Masuda.

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Belonging is having the opportunity to learn about a diversity of perspectives and experiences, especially about people who might look like you; "heroes" from communities that share in similar struggles. This is my son's 3rd grade project on his "American Hero." (by Thuy Vo Dang)

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Belonging is not needing to fit in. You just do. 

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Belonging is not needing to fit in. You just do. 

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Belonging is a feeling of calm, serenity that leads to deep gratitude for this community and my role in it.

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Belonging is a feeling of calm, serenity that leads to deep gratitude for this community and my role in it.

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Belonging is telling someone something and hearing back the words "I get it." It's that feeling of being understood without having to continue to explain.

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Belonging is this strong sense of knowing that I MATTER in a community.

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Belonging is accepting an invitation to be in community. Tuyen

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Belonging means feeling loved, respected, and reaffirmed and not feeling like you constantly need to explain your identity to others.

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Belonging means feeling loved, respected, and reaffirmed and not feeling like you constantly need to explain your identity to others.

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belonging means that my difference is seen as an advantage and benefit to my community

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belonging means that my difference is seen as an advantage and benefit to my community

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To step into redemptive ways of living for ourselves & others

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To step into redemptive ways of living for ourselves & others

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Belonging is not just about us individually belonging, but to create communities and culture that will help cultivate others' sense of belonging as well.

To help other people belong, I believe we must pay attention and show genuine interest in those who are most not seen, represented, and are marginalized/oppressed.

Then from experiencing their humanity, we can move deeper into our own humanity by moving towards action in love towards them and others who may suffer from similar things.

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Being able to show up and just be you...and passing it on; showing up for others: listening, sharing and spreading joy, singing at the top of your lungs, "talking story"

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Being able to show up and just be you...and passing it on; showing up for others: listening, sharing and spreading joy, singing at the top of your lungs, "talking story"

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Belonging means us living and knowing the: why many of us take our shoes off before entering our homes, why our elders cut fruit & cook for us to show love, & that we really are our ancestors' wildest-dream-turned-into-reality.  Yeeee

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Belonging means us living and knowing the: why many of us take our shoes off before entering our homes, why our elders cut fruit & cook for us to show love, & that we really are our ancestors' wildest-dream-turned-into-reality.  Yeeee

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Belonging means being fully seen and loved.

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Belonging means being fully seen and loved.

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Belonging is not having to fight to take up space, but having space proactively made for you. Belonging is not having to alter yourself for acceptance or access to opportunities/ resources, but showing up exactly as you are and being affirmed.

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Belonging is not having to fight to take up space, but having space proactively made for you. Belonging is not having to alter yourself for acceptance or access to opportunities/ resources, but showing up exactly as you are and being affirmed.

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To feel appreciated, able to move in the world, and exist in the world as anyone else.

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Belonging is being supported to thrive in the fullness of my humanity for all the facets of me.

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Being really heard and be with me as I journey on

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Being really heard and be with me as I journey on

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Belonging is what we all desire and deserve, which is to be seen and heard. The AANHPI community deserves to be seen and heard. 

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Belonging is what we all desire and deserve, which is to be seen and heard. The AANHPI community deserves to be seen and heard. 

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Belonging feels like relief - you can be fully yourself, let down your guard, and not feel like you have to regulate/minimize/censor parts of yourself.

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Belonging is feeling valued and accepted in reciprocal relationships where your strengths are leveraged in communal support with the beings in (and with) the spaces you occupy.

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Belonging is feeling valued and accepted in reciprocal relationships where your strengths are leveraged in communal support with the beings in (and with) the spaces you occupy.

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Belonging is no longer feeling self-conscious, where otherness is no longer in focus, the right to just be.

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Belonging is no longer feeling self-conscious, where otherness is no longer in focus, the right to just be.

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Belonging is feeling comfortable and at home.  Belonging is unpacking shared experiences and feeling supported.  

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Belonging is feeling comfortable and at home.  Belonging is unpacking shared experiences and feeling supported.  

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Being invited into a space helps me feel like I belong.

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Is being accepted. Being silly. Being yourself without feeling judged.

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Being seen, acknowledged and accepted for who I am. Feeling that I can be ME. 

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Being seen, acknowledged and accepted for who I am. Feeling that I can be ME. 

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Is when my identities are acknowledged/accepted/included/seen/celebrated, and when I have the power to celebrate the identities of my students inside and beyond the classroom

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Belonging is being remembered, included, invited into a common space. Belonging is being listened to. Belonging is being celebrated by others for what you’re excited for. Belonging is not having to be exhausted after hanging out with others because you’ve been putting on a front the whole time.

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Belonging means safety. It means feeling validated and heard.

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Belonging means finding the people that are willing to support you no matter what.

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Belonging means finding the people that are willing to support you no matter what.