https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii What's been difficult for you? What thoughts/feelings/ questions have been raised for you ? Or simply just write what's present for you at this moment. en-us 2021-03-25 17:18:35 UTC 2021-06-22 14:20:03 UTC hello@padlet.com jennifer_diaz4 https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355049387 i went to the nhv mayor's press conference today to be supportive of my friend who was speaking at it.  i was surprised by how many people turned out from across the community.  i was also confused by why so few aapi were asked to speak and why so many clergypeople were asked to speak.  it is a press conference, so it is going to be all talk, but it was still disappointing because i did not hear talk about white supremacy.  i heard talk about love and unity, which is not bad or wrong, but it definitely fell short for me.  the good news is one of the things my friend spoke on was how we are starting an aapi organizing group in new haven, and afterwards, i got to speak with several students from southern who want to be a part of that group.  if you know me, you know that i know our young people "are the ones we have been waiting for"--thank goodness for them--getting to meet and speak with them and start planning with them made listening to an hour of talk worth it.]]> 2021-03-25 21:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355049387 marcocenabre16 https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355050907 Even at this moment, planning this question, I'm having a hard time writing/processing. It's a lot to take in.  I remember hearing about an elderly  Filipino man being attacked on a subway, and I refused to look into what happened further because I imagine my father, uncle, brother or any family. In response  to Atlanta shootings I think about my mom, aunts and other family. This alone has been hard. On top of it, being a lead teacher at my school, I've been asked to engage in planning lessons, responses, attending meetings helping students coordinate things that they want to do to be in allyship with the AAPI community. Yet, in the collection of the staff involved, and the students, I was the only one who they thought of asking because of my identity/ because I am consistently the voice/ go to person to help engage in "difficult conversations" Even today I was in a "courageous conversation training" and all of a sudden everything was centered on violence and hatred towards the Asian communities. I went from invisibility to extreme spotlight. This is hard to for me to manage. And my white colleagues are more infuriating than ever. ]]> 2021-03-25 21:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355050907 tejasgodbole19 https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355051512 Taking time to process has been difficult. Can't tell if just chugging along with work and teaching and routines is healthy and helpful, or just avoidance. Being mixed is sometimes a strange balance to begin with. Conflicting desires of wanting people to reach out and check in, and also recognizing that I am white passing and have a great deal of privilege, and also wanting to be able to support my friends and family with strength]]> 2021-03-25 21:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355051512 https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355053019 it's been difficult trying to do my normal teaching duties while having so many thoughts and feelings about all of this. it's been hard to go on social media at times, because what could be signs of support one second, could quickly turn to hateful messages in the comments. I feel like I go through waves of feeling inspired and feeling too upset/hopeless/helpless about the state of things. ]]> 2021-03-25 21:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355053019 https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355053396 Finding time to process has been hard. Finding people to process with has been even harder. ]]> 2021-03-25 21:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355053396 https://padlet.com/marcocenabre16/enh6hh4pl1d6bcii/wish/1355058216 Wondering why imperialism and the war culture against Asia for decades has been largely left out of conversations. That white allyship has felt performative.

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