Tag: cultural awareness

  • Wise words from a Wise woman…

    “Choose your leaders
    with wisdom and forethought.
    To be led by a coward
    is to be controlled
    by all that the coward fears.
    To be led by a fool
    is to be led
    by the opportunists
    who control the fool.
    To be led by a thief
    is to offer up
    your most precious treasures
    to be stolen.
    To be led by a liar
    is to ask
    to be told lies.
    To be led by a tyrant
    is to sell yourself
    and those you love
    into slavery.”

    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

    Octavia is hands down my favorite author of all time and she predicated the future we are now living. She had a brilliant mind and wasn’t appreciated like she should have been when she was living. I am trying to introduce as many people as possible to her books because she is amazing. She writes speculative fiction, but also Afrofuturism. She was one of the pioneers who established the genre!

  • State of Humanity…

    How have so many humans fallen so far from grace? The word grace means:

    1. Simple elegance or refinement of movement
    2. Courteous goodwill
    3. Do honor or credit to (someone or something) by one’s presence

    There are certain groups in the United States that claim to live and breathe these concepts and yet those same people are doing the EXACT opposite. For those of you who dig Jesus, he would be absolutely appalled by your actions. Jesus preached about love, acceptance, and charity. Jesus washed the feet of someone considered to be the lowest form of human you can be, and he did it with love, compassion, and grace. When the idiots still weren’t understanding his message, he went into the temples and turned over tables in anger. Yes, even Jesus got angry and upset and threw fits. Jesus was pissed because he was like my dudes did you not hear me? I want you to love everyone and not be a terrible religion like the Romans who are slaughtering the humans I love.

    Personally, I believe the Bible is half history book and half guidebook full of metaphor. There is nothing Holy about it anymore than me claiming Lord of the Rings or Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is Holy. See, it is either all true or it’s all just stories. You can’t pick and choose which books have purpose and meaning and matter. Norse gods are real, Egyptian, African, and every other culture that is OLDER than yours. Why? Because you are just a little tiny human and it’s arrogant to claim you know for sure where every human is going. The concept of hell was stolen from a much more ancient belief system that belongs to Pagans. However, it wasn’t anything like what you claim. In fact, almost every single aspect of your belief is stolen from others.

    You can’t claim to be a Christian if you choose not to be “Christ” like because that is literally the meaning of the word. If you support Trump, you are against Jesus and everything he taught you. That means you are ignorant about your own belief and that makes me so sad for you. If you would just pick up some books, you too could understand your own belief system and then maybe you can be a good human that Jesus would be proud of instead of shaking his head.

    Also, Elaine… I don’t have grace, I don’t need grace, I don’t even say grace. I had to reference this otherwise I wouldn’t be me. 😆

  • #Advocacy, #NoKings, #NoMasters

    I was getting ready for the day and this idea for a graphic came to me. What do you think? I might use this in a cultural awareness and disability training I am currently creating. This shows my journey over the last decade! I love the person I have become. THIS is what my Mom and my Grammy and people with disabilities and mental health struggle just like ME, taught me. We won’t ever be silenced again! Trump, we are coming for you, ***hole.

    #advocacy

    #activism

    #disabilityawareness

    #culturalawareness

    #fucktR

    #nokingsinamerica

    #NoFascism

  • No Kings, No Masters

    Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in the 2025 NO KINGS Protest. Eugene, OR had thousands of people. This is just the beginning but we made history.

    NO KINGS NO MASTERS

    Impeach Trump

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  • The importance of Speculative Fiction for understanding Cultural Awareness.

    For decades and decades the sci-fi genre has been white washed like many places in our society. Slowly that has changed because of a growing subgenre know as Speculative Fiction. My favorite authors include Octavia Butler, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, and many others. Black women who have stormed the genre and not looked back and they have written some of the most important literature of the 20th and 21st century.

    Then I found this article about the way a U of O professor is incorporating this into an Anthropology class. It’s a great read.

    To me Speculative Fiction has helped take the genre of sci-fi and cemented it as being Literature level writing that needs to be a bigger part of the conversation. These writers are having a huge impact.

    https://cas.uoregon.edu/news/exploring-cultural-differences-through-science-fiction