The Times, They Are a’ Changin’

We cannot wait for change to happen from the top down. We cannot want change and hope that someone will make the changes that I, you, and our society craves, needs, and deserves, as Humxn Rights. We must, individually, and collectively, create change. Without oversight, we cannot expect for those in power to always do the right thing. If we have learned anything over the last 120 years, it is that. Were it not for the enslaved Americans who resisted and fought back, or for the “freed” enslaved Americans who started the Abolitionist Movement, if it were not for the white citizens of this country who joined the Abolitionist Movement, if it were not for the womxn that fought to have the right to vote, if it were not for the Black Americans who refused to sit in the back of the bus and accept jim crow laws, if it were not for the Black Americans in this country who started the Civil Rights Movement and inspired other movements like the Brown Berets and the Second Wave Feminist Movement, if it were not for the brave activism of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera on behalf of LGBTQIA rights, if it were not for us there would be no change. We cannot wait for people in power to do the right thing, we know that. We must insist, we must make them, we must fight for them to do the right thing. Our silence in the face of inhumanities and injustices on racism and white supremacy and misogyny and sexism and anti-LGBTQIA and antisemitism and the greed & cruelty of capitalism and the patriarchy and putting children in cages, is complicity. We cannot be silent. We cannot wait. We must move this world forward. And that’s exactly what we are doing. There will be change whether one wants it or not, change is here and it will continue. Change: can’t stop, won’t stop.

"All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God Is Change." Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower