Comfortably numb

Is it possible for activism to not be all-consuming?

Chantal PasquarelloSeptember 4, 2020Black Lives Matter, Rage Against the MachineComment

More anger

Until a few weeks ago, I had never heard the term Performative Activist or Optical Ally, but I’ve long been intimately familiar with the concepts.

Chantal PasquarelloJune 26, 2020Black Lives Matter, Performative Activist, Optical allyComment

What can I say?

I think many of us in the humanitarian field are somehow exempting ourselves, skirting around honest conversations about race precisely because of the kind of work we do.