On anti-oppression work [brief]

The reason why so much of anti-oppression work is centered around support services is simple. When the world cannot be your safe space, you create your own. There’s no advocacy without a sense of power and that power comes from a community and those of its voices that can get through. 

We are all in this together and only together we can ensure that our spaces remain both open and safer. Safer for us, our families and those close to us, for strangers who share the same struggles and for each and every single person who’s right now too afraid to even reach out to us. And for those who never will, but who will remember that if in need be, someone is there to be reached.

To reach for any kind of power, we must first care for one another and for all the others who are oppressed. We need to be strong, caring and intersectional.