Cassidy sometimes comes to work with me. I am very fortunate to work in a place where she can be with me for a few hours! She loves to sit in my lap and watch me type. She also like to watch paper be printed from the huge poster maker. And of course, our students can't get enough of her! Some of these photos were taken in one of the meeting rooms on the 4th floor called the Great Room. And some were taken at home while getting ready for work.
Joining Rites of Passage and Empowerment (ROPE) has been key in helping us find community out here in the Berkshires. No sugar coating- this county is both white, rural, conservative, racist and full of theatre, music, the outdoors, and pockets of loving, open-minded people. Massachusetts may be the most liberal state in the US, but we are far from Boston. Here, minutes from New York and Vermont, the sounds of performative equity can be heard from the tone deaf school administrators who "don't see color" and have voiced that "race was not an issue till we brought it up", to the lack of representation in politics, restaurants, stores, and general day to day. We have lived in places across the country, and have yet to stumble upon a place that felt fully welcoming. I don't say this to complain, it is merely a statement of my lived experience thus far and an acknowledgement of the work it takes as a Black woman to make friends, have meaningful relationships, g...
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