[Lace Watkins]

https://laceonrace.com/2021/09/12/early-september-invitation-to-engagement/

Early September Invitation to Engagement

Discussion

[Laura Berwick]

I believe in what we do here. I believe in the efficacy of approaching racial equity through relational ethics, in learning from the ground up how we humans can relate to each other rightly, both as a way of guiding me through sloughing off my white supremacy and connecting with others as they do the same, to support, to challenge, to help scrub the crust away.

So I engage each month to keep my skin in the game. I don’t have the melanin in my skin that puts my actual skin at risk, but I know that my money is one way I hold value and privilege in our white supremacist system, so my money is something I put here as part of my praxis, for the health of a community and organization doing work I value.

[Rebecca McClinton]

Knowing just how much you all put in the background working to create this space is part of what motivates me to take an active part engaging as a walker here, staying and planting, wanting to see the orchard grow in a tangible way. I have financially engaged for September and am so thankful to be here. To echo Laura above, I too, believe in what we do here, new things in new ways!

[Rhonda Freeman]

We do a lot behind the scenes, but the real work is here – front of house – where we practice and engage so that we can get better at following the North Star.

[Emily Holzknecht]

I have engaged in September and will continue to engage. It is part of my praxis to do so!

[Christin Spoolstra]

Committed to this work. Committed to this orchard. September engagement sent.

[Shara Cody]

Committing to sustaining this space is an important step in my walking here and my racial justice praxis. I remember filling out the sustainer in training form in order to say what I was going to do and then engaging financially every month to live out what I said and be the person I want to be. I’ve engaged financially for September and will continue to do so each month without being asked.

[Rhonda Freeman]

I had the honor of asking the questions in the ‘Ask me Anything?’ and since I became engaged with Lace On Race, reading all of the pinned posts, with the intention of responding and engaging with two other community members, I have thought of questions I had, but always been too shy to ask. So, here’s one: what gives you hope right now?

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