When I started my blog, making sure diverse voices were part of the content was important to me. This also means there are times when my voice doesn’t need to take up space, and this has been true of the last few weeks.
What I feel today is powerless. Powerless in knowing that as I write this, one of the biggest acts of evil since World War 2 is happening in the Ukraine. Powerless because in a case of history repeating itself, some of the fractures in society that we’re seeing – social unrest, bigotry and racism among others – mirror similar unrest that happened before the start of World War 1 and 2.