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I’m struggling with the competition between my own personal grief and the collective grief from current events. How do I balance the two?
I recorded this on May 27, so I’m late posting it, but the issues I discuss (Uvalde, Buffalo, and the Supreme Court decision) are still relevant. Here’s a link to the article where I found Elaine Castillo’s “Trauma is a landscape” quote. I’m not the first to say that being anti-choice is not the same as being “pro-life,” and I don’t think I can find every link to every person who has ever said that, but I will include this link to George Carlin’s famous monologue that echoes the things I say in this video.
Other relevant links:
- On Grief – I talk about processing the death of a friend in a society that doesn’t teach us to grieve well.
- On Grief, Part 2 – I talk about processing the loss of my job in ways that work for me but don’t look much like the ways I’ve been taught to grieve as a white American.
On Grief, Part 3