BLACK LIVES MATTER

Hi friends,

I have been very quiet here the last few weeks. I am feeling so heavily the intensity of what is happening in the world right now. 

I have been spending limited time on social media, preserving my energy for offline conversations with people in my community.

The impact of this surging public awareness of racial injustice is hitting hard for some people in my immediate circle, people who are very close to me, whom I love and care for, who have dealt with discriimation as a constant reality in their lives.

And yes I said ‘awareness’, because it is not just an increase of violence to black people that is having the impact (violence has been the ongoing reality in our culture of white supremacy). It is this fresh outcry that is bringing these facts up strongly into the public consciousness that is triggering the pain and trauma, pain and trauma that has been carried for generations. 

Yes, it needs to happen. We need to change. 

We need to wake up. We need to educate ourselves and self-reflect on our role in the continuing injustice against BIPOC through our silence and passivity. We need to start caring deeply about the discrimination black people suffer simply because of the color of their skin. It is past time - like hundreds of years past time - for the change to happen, for us to actually become an equal and just society for all.  

I cancelled my Dance your own Dance livestream last week, in order to take and hold space for all of this.

I plan to show up tomorrow, Saturday the 13th @ 12:30pm to dance again with you. I hope you will join me. 

I really don’t know what else to say right now, how to address what is happening, but I wanted to come here and start with this. 

But DANCE is our FREEDOM, and we can dance with our feelings - ALL of our feelings, and dance together, as a collective that stands for peace and freedom and justice. 

I will be inviting you to donate during the livestream to Color of Change and the ACLU.  I am joining you in supporting these organizations' vital work in the fight against racial injustice.

In love and solidarity,

Erin