Reflections

It's been a while since I've posted, and that has had a lot to do with my emotional state. I don't want to go on and on but on top of the normal chaos of graduating and feeling insecure and stressed about major transitions in my life, the shooting of Johanna Justin-Jinich has been a huge emotional trauma and violation of any personal feelings of safety I had, as well as a major loss to our community and a close friend of mine who is her boyfriend.

I will try to get back on board and keep posting. One interesting article my dad sent me is an Op/Ed from the NYTimes about how race affects media reception/attention to crimes, especially murder crimes. It's called "What Color is That Baby?" and is linked here. For a while I considered not posting it but ultimately, after learning more about Johanna, I believe she would have wanted us to honor her memory in continuing to ask the same critical questions about our humanity that we would have done anyway.

In love and peace.