nursingforsocialjustice

It’s a metaphor, the notion of burning it all down. The idea that we need to blow this up and start again with new perspectives that aren’t informed by ideals of the past that have led to this deep social injustice we are experiencing right now.

And is not a new idea, this strategy of deliberate, forced action to dismantle the taken for granted status quo to change what we know as normal. How do we accomplish change when the people in power are invested in staying the same? And, I ask because I struggle with the idea of letting go of what I know in order to make room for a different way of being. I struggle with entitlement and the ideas that a deeply engrained in me from being born and raised in a capitalist society. Is it possible to feel defeat and hope at the same time?

Love,

Michelle D.