Speaking my truth has become an act of resistance that works to uproot the patriarchy. My voice carries on the work of early suffragists, civil rights activists, multiple waves of feminists, and, as the t-shirt says, “the ancestors of the witches you couldn’t burn.”

This week a friend shared this quote from Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., “This is an inaugural moment. It’s a beginning; it’s not an end. I’ve said it before: justice is a practice.” It was a great reminder to me that we often set our sights on a goal – like racial justice, the end of war or a more sustainable planet – and forget that all these goals are also personal practices that we must nurture and begin again each day.