WHO IS READY TO...

Who is ready to love courageously? Love through the insecurities learned by being told you weren't <blank> enough. Love through the trauma of being molested as a child. Love through the pain of childrearing practices birthed during slavery and colonialism. Love through desire to be right and to keep your ego intact. Love through the silences. Love through the distractions on Instragram, PornHub, Myvidster, Xtube and Facebook. Love through the consumerism that strokes superficial satisfactions. Love through the hate mail. Love through the gossip. Love through the politics of respectability. Love through the locked gates. Love through the mean and lean times. Love through the fatophobia and body fascism. Love through the hatred of the feminine wherever it appears. Love through the cancer clusters. Love through the toxic environment. Love through the changing of the climate. Love through the religions dogma. Love through the intolerance of difference and diversity. Love through the bloodlines. Love through the secrets and lies. Love through and through. Who is ready to love courageously, wholly, and unapologetically? Where are you? State your name. Raise your hand to your heart. Let us know you are there. Kiss the wind, caress the sun, play footsie with the meadows of our souls. Are you out there? Breathing love in and out your lung parts?

SOURCE: BLACK FUNK