thank you so much your words were so needed!!

4) focus on building community and believing in hope and love

3) my ancestors lived and found ways to resist despite: being trafficked, forced to learn colonial languages, existing in an antiblack apartheid state. if they can do it so can i

2) focus on what is REAL: black, trans, queer people have existed and will always exist. slavery used to be legal just like all this dumb shit.

1) don't fall for fear and confusion