Kali J Desautels
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DoTheWork Challenge Day 6 – continuing Rachel Cargle’s course on unlearning racism. “How can we adequately love, support and uplift those we do not understand. Allyship begins with empathy. The racism in this country thrives off of “otherness”. It persists with the understanding that when marginalized groups are seen as ‘someone else’ or ‘someone different’…
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Day 6078937 of COVID-19 The wheels have come off. My son who hates attention told me to post this. He decided he wanted melon balls today, so he made some. As he scraped the bottom of the rind, he turned to me with a grin and said “Mom, I will take a shower after, but…”…
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Anxiety. The feeling of dread in that moment before your alarm sounds and you open your eyes. The moment you wake up 4 hours before your alarm and then obsessively check your phone for some reason why you woke up with less than half a night’s sleep. The feeling that getting out of bed is…
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Timon helps with laundry and cheers up best friends. He is very useful. He just has RBF in pictures. LoL #blackcat #myboy #myraggedyman #raggedyoldman #furbaby #myboy #ragamuffin #disneycats #ragamuffincat #catsofinstagram #meow #kittycat #laundryroom #furball #fluffy #furrybaby #longhair #kalidesautlesreads
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In today’s session of Rachel Cargle’s Do The Work 30 Day Challenge, we examined our privilege and how we no winglet and unknowingly perpetuate the racist society that benefits whiteness. In particular, coincidentally aligning with yesterday’s post about white feminism, we are asked to make not of intersectionality and how white feminism is a further…
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My son. My gifted son. My funny son. My son who has ADHD. My son with the sarcastic wit of a much older human. My son who is so much like my brother. My son challenges me, and then turns around and is the sweetest, cuddliest child in the universe. My brother is gifted. My…
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Today’s session involved the infamous Doll Test and participating the Harvard Project Implicit to determine our implicit biases. Once again, I invite you to participate in this healing work. It’s not enough to wear a T-shirt bought off Amazon that says Black Lives Matter (which may or may not actually provide funds or support to…
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Let’s talk for a minute about why white women need to get on board with fixing the white supremacist society that we live in – white women were granted suffrage on the backs of BIPOC. In the USA, Susan B. Anthony sided with white supremacists and took funding from them, fighting for an English-literate, educated…
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#DoTheWork Challenge Day 3 – before we can be anti-racist, we need to see what white privilege has wrought on our BIPOC brothers and sisters. I cannot stress enough how much I value this challenge full of curated content by Rachel Cargle. Danielle and I are doing this and I sincerely hope that you will…
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Mornings can be hard. Coffee helps! I am so excited that my Four Sigmatic Lion’s Mane mushroom coffee Think showed up in time to start my day. Ground Coffee with Lion’s Mane and Chaga (16 servings) – Get your brain going without leaving your body behind. Lion’s Mane and Chaga keeps the caffeine under control…
Kali J Desautels 