Love Book Club by Ariana Mungia https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd Share your responses to the prompts below: en-us 2021-11-10 04:21:58 UTC 2021-11-17 02:55:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1885663481 American white rage is causing post-traumatic stress symptoms in Black, dark-skinned women and their families. Their mothers especially feel like punching bags because they must maintain a facade of strength, as they suffer with chronic illness and early death.]]> 2021-11-12 02:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1885663481 Because simply being "color blind" is not enough to engage as an abolitionist. Abolitionists must be anti-racist in their values beliefs and actions. An abolitionist acts for change and finds a way to perpetuate it radically, not incrementally. https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1885669040 2021-11-12 02:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1885669040 https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1893426553 Wellness connects to to the quote Dr. Love included from Pat Parker, here in its fullness: "If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere, and not have to to say to one of them, 'No, you stay home tonight, you won't be welcome,' because I'm going to an all-white party where I can be gay, but not Black. Or I'm going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me. The day all the different parts of me can come along, we would have what I would call a revolution.” As Dr. Love says wellness is also "wisdom and being well is hard work" - it is a choice to "let go of your fears and move your anger into a space of healing" (p. 156). It is beyond alright. ]]> 2021-11-16 07:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1893426553 Abolition is a vehicle to deconstruct systematic oppressive systems. https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1895662012 2021-11-17 01:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1895662012 The goal must always be pursuing freedom at all cost https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1895804271 2021-11-17 02:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/apmungia/qtvdw0irzyjk7lcd/wish/1895804271