allowed to join us to remember & give times toward grieving & recognizing cost is about where he lives, his family lives
Discussion
didnt have to
did anyway
it matters to me
woulda been way easier for him
to just leave if there was dissent about his presence
he wanted to stay
i made sure it was safe for him to do so
i kicked out the person who unilaterally kicked him out in the first place without even coming to me with a concern in the backchannel
violating the law & intention of my room
which was not a group project as in
=> make your own room remembering residential school kids
this was my room
i made it
im holding the silence for three days
that was only a single minute
for a whole entire life added up
i get how wrong
as in, triggered to death by genocidal maniacs is no crime
unable to even see an avatar of some guy once idf is no crime
refusing to share space with that guy named guy is no crime
but this room was about residential school children who were murdered & tortured to death in north america
triggered means what? => recuse yourself not remove another
do places of peace
places of mediation
places of grief
have a long list on the door?
enter only
if you have never placed hands on a single gun
enter only
if not a single factory farm animal has ever passed your teeth
enter only
if you are a citizen of a place without crimes against humanity, without genocidal history, without imperialism
enter only
if the language you speak has never spoken crime into existence or war
do places of grief & gathering say that?
would not these places be forever empty if they did?
imagine if those were the conditions to enter a graveyard or memorial park
the dead would rather have us, i think
then have us too guilty, too ashamed, too broken to even bring ourselves into remembering enough to carry them with us, carry them in