Nov '25 (edited) • General discussion
Holiday Hangover
When I was 19 and struggling with the choice to quit community college so I could work more hours or move in with my very unhealed mother, my 45 year old photo lab mate took me in. I lived there 6 months with her, her career Air Force husband and teen son. I was always the odd ball in this adopted family and teased for it in a way I could see their work and find the love. Then Trump- at first they thought he was a joke, now they are happy he is “cleaning up DC and deporting the gang members.” It was a rough Thanksgiving and I will love and honor what they have done for me, from my safe space. There I can be genuinely me and be seen and heard. The trauma goes back even further than Colonialism and the current MAGA indoctrination has been decades in the making. Many of my white and in this case (Puerto Rican- internalized racism and sexism) friends are not capable of the needed trauma healing . The Ally Sip was so helpful in maneuvering this and focusing where I can be part of the world I want to live in. Thank you so much Ardenia and all my fellow ladies.
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