White people – WE CAN NOT GIVE UP. We (Sunny and Chanelle) are deeply upset, angry and devastated along with the rest of you, but white folks let us remember it is not us who will bear the brunt of the hatred, racism, Islamophobia, sexism, disableism (and insert every other nasty) that Trump is channeling and amplifying. That means it would be very easy for us to give up, turn our backs and shrink into our own little worlds. NO, WE WILL NOT GIVE UP. This is a powerful political moment – yes, a moment in which we need to mourn yet also get up and do the work to transform this shit that has been simmering, the shit that has already been hurting so many Black, Indigenous, Muslim and other racialized communities, women and others. Friends in the US: we are with you. We don’t know what resistance and transformation in these next stages looks like, but we will be doing our utmost to figure that out alongside you all. We are sitting here with this question for white folks: when you look back will this be the moment you shriveled and shrank inside your skin or the moment when even if you are afraid and disheartened, you rose to the mammoth challenge and were part of transforming the world into the beautiful place WE KNOW it can be? -Sunny & Chanelle
