Black Lives Matter
I would be remiss if I did not address the biggest issue worldwide at the moment: BIPOC's right to basic human rights, basic human decency, and life. I am a cisgender white woman. I will never personally know the struggles of Black people. I do not have to experience the struggles firsthand, however, to understand the systemic problem that exists in the United States and many other countries throughout the world. I do not have to have brown or black skin to know that being treated as less than human due to nothing more than the color of one's skin is not acceptable. I do not have to have brown or black skin to know that we live in a nation build on the bodies of Indigenous and Black people. I do not have to have brown or black skin to know that saying "All Lives Matter" erases the issue at hand, which is that our nation treats Black lives as if they do not matter. I do not have to have brown or black skin to know that our nation requires a systemic change. Police brut