Facebook Publication Date: 5/19/2018 21:05

This is the definitive article on mental illness and accountability in movement spaces.

I can’t write it any better, so I won’t try.

But I would like to have a conversation about this very thing. This is what I was getting at earlier in my earlier post.

To expect those you say you stand with to ‘make room for’, or excuse, or rationalize, or make contortions for is a real exercise in hubris and entitlement.

Racial justice spaces are not where we work out our demons. It places additional burden on those already oppressed.

That does not mean we take any walk back from grace and compassion.

There is a hard bright line between judgement and accountability; between grace and enabling.

I have seen people with real struggles, that wear their scars both inside and out, who nonetheless do mighty things. Sometimes, on my very best days, I am one of them.

Mad respect for those who get up, suit up, and do the work to all our benefit, even when–especially when–the harsh winds blow relentlessly in their faces, that make each step an exercise in endurance.

They are models for all of us. All of us have issues, that, if allowed, can stall our progress, weaken our resolve. Some of us will always walk with a limp, sometimes a heavy one.

But we can still dance.

https://wearyourvoicemag.com/identities/mental-illness-accountability

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