A personal reckoning with power, liberation, and what equity actually demands of you.
"Equity." "Inclusion." "Liberation." "Decolonize." These words fill conference stages, corporate reports, hashtags, and hiring campaigns. But too often, they are rented, not lived. They become currency in a broken marketplace — a way to signal progress without changing power.
Equity is a redistribution of power. It requires people with power to give some of it up. Not symbolically. Actually. It asks questions that cannot be answered with policy: Who gets to rest? Who gets to heal? Who gets to refuse without punishment?
If you want to practice equity, you will have to lose things: share credit, say no to money, make space you don't control, be corrected, be accountable, be changed. You will have to unlearn comfort as your compass.
I don't know what the future looks like. But I know what I am fighting for: a world where no child is disposable; a world where land is sacred, not owned; a world where survival doesn't depend on luck; a world where we hold each other through transformation, not transaction.