Whenever I am faced with emotional ambivalence, or a sense of duty to others is in competition with my own emotional needs, I ask, 鈥淲hat would a white woman do?鈥
After the civil rights movement, White people in the U.S. were still widely uncommitted to systemic solutions and policies to support racial equality. Although attitudes have shifted since, it鈥檚 not enough for transformative change.
The cultural work we do in our homes and the activism we do to end systems of oppression may look different during this pandemic, but it matters all the more.