Climate Crisis. Racism. Social Inequality. The War on Plastic. Fast Fashion. Refugee Crisis. The War on War. Sexism. My Own Internal Bias. I’m tackling it all, one week at a time.
Weekly Weigh In #6: Changing the Face of Entertainment
I have been indulging too much in my white and privileged “I”: from here on out this is not about me as a thinking, feeling person but rather as an actor and agent for change. It’s not my voice that’s needed; it’s my actions. The fact that this makes me uncomfortable, that I feel irritated…
Weekly Weigh In #5
I saw a zine on social media this week that depicted two people catching up. “What did you do today?” One asked the other. “Oh, nothing out of the ordinary,” the other replied. “I just gave money to an anti-racist cause, continued my unlearning, and then didn’t tell anybody about it.”* *I’m paraphrasing. I can’t…
Weekly Weigh In #4
5.23pm I am writing this from my perch on the unstable and dilapidated (chuffed to have found a reason to use that word) outdoor furniture outside my Dublin bedsit. I am in full view of the front room voyeurs of my terraced street and I am in my bra and shorts that have been rolled…
Wednesday Weigh In #3
Hello. How has your week been? Good, I hope. Mine has been busy and hectic but I don’t want to say any of that because it sounds like excuses. So, in a bid to keep this functional here’s what I’ve been doing this week to be a better ally. When I sat down to write…
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About this Privileged White Woman
Hello, I’m Holly. Like many people, I was outraged and devastated by the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Abery, Breonna Taylor and many others in recent weeks. What outraged me more, was my own complicity in systemic racism and a world designed to exclude. This page is my attempt to be a better ally, friend, citizen of this disappearing Earth. In an attempt to hold myself accountable, these posts are a weekly weigh in that will chronicle what I am doing – consistently and persistently – to be active in my activism. Sometimes I will fail, I will let people down – these weigh ins are about owning failure as much as chronicling progress. Most importantly, they are here to serve as a reminder, to myself and to you, that “ally” is a VERB, not just a NOUN.
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