❤️‍🩹 You should do it with a broken heart

"to refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up." - audre lorde

I can barely look at my phone lately.

The last time I did, I saw a baby in a way no one should ever see a baby.

I heard a Palestinian mother wailing in a way that pierced me in my gut.

And then I saw a meme that said, “I want to hug my own babies extra tight…” and honestly, I couldn’t even do that. I screamed the f-word into my pillow and told my children …