Are you kind

I am an immigrant

I have lived on the threshold of homelessness.

I know what it feels like to have the ‘heavy’ show up at your door to repossess your car.

I know what it is like to walk the lands of the West and never feel looked at for my melanin.

I know what it is like to walk almost any street and have the hungry, sometimes predatory male gaze on my being.

I know what it feels like to walk the street in China and stand out for my hair and skin.

I know what it is like to be smart as heck and yet have my feminine voice and mind belittled and silenced.

I have been called too bossy. Too edgy. Too visionary. To fierce.

I have been misunderstood. Ignored. Sidelined one thousand times to the bros.

I am human.

All of these experiences have made me more compassionate towards my fellow humans. Brown ones, strong ones, weak ones. Tall, small, skinny, fat. Big feet, long-limbed, square-jawed or small-breasted — incredible athletic advantages bestowed to some. I celebrate their lucky lottery and that they have had a chance to seize their luck on a world stage.

I weep for the families, the young, who look to the West as offering a better life, more opportunity — the very thing every human I know wants — and yet are treated as less than human for even attempting to cross a border. It breaks my heart that almost all refugees are created by the extractive profit motivations of the wealthy North. My privilege comes at the cost of the global south, and when these people show up at our door asking for help, we kick them down again.

I care not the colour, where you are from, how you got here, or what god you pray to.

This is what matters to me.

Do you treat your fellow humans with dignity, compassion, understanding?

Do you look underneath the shrills of hate, the algorithms that turn kindness into fear? Do you dig deeper for truth, rather than be captured by the cruel?

Do you offer a hand to help?

Are you out there speaking, writing, or protesting the intolerable cruelty our politicians and oligarchs are supporting?

Do you stand for all human justice? Do you have compassion for the broken, neglected, poor? Do you celebrate the glorious rainbow of life in all of its complexities?

Are you kind?

Are you kind to those who are different to you, those who fail to fit the stereotype?

Photo Taken August 5th 2024

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