I’ve talked about it many times: the need to reject people’s cynical or shaming comments, and comments coming simply from either not understanding your work, or not having even consumed it (for me, it’s honestly usually the second).
But there’s another type of comment:
They usually come from those who have been silent on all the work you’ve been doing, and who suddenly try to shame you for simply continuing it, as if that continuation is insensitive and offensive.
I invite you to notice where that insensitivity and indifference actually lie (even if they come from a place of love ❤️).
In the end, I won’t be schooled on the importance of human life. Especially by those for whom that human life and the lives of civilians matter suddenly, selectively, and once in ten years.
I simply won’t engage in passive-aggressive, patronising, and cynical ways that this shaming is expressed. And that’s what I’m inviting you to do, too.
It doesn’t serve anyone. And it definitely doesn’t serve the work we’re doing ✊🏾
At the same time, thank you all who have been supporting my work, it means more than I could ever express ❤️
Justina
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