June is for Pride

We celebrate Pride for marginalized groups because often they have overcome A LOT to get to a space of achievement, satisfaction and dignity. America has a long and tumultuous history that didn’t always serve all people. I am proud to be an American but I also believe we can do better and that we still have a lot of work to do.  I look forward to us getting to a place where we can all have pride, in who we are and in what we have done.  To get there, we have to get loud about who we are and honest about what we’ve done. It is revolutionary to live loudly when your identity is marginalized or denied, when people in the past have died for doing the same. 

Marsha P. Johnson said, “History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.”  The current state of America did not just happen, we are here because of decisions that people made leading up today.  Multiple decisions big and small that affected us all.  She also said “You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” None of us are truly free until we are all free.

A Few Important & Fun dates: 

National Say Something Nice Day – June 1