“A buen tiempo”. Dominican Proverb to wish you well while eating cuz u arrived at the ‘right time’ to eat a good ass meal. Awards are like food for the soul. The recognition keeps you going, continues to motivate you especially if you are coming to a point of exhaustion. But most importantly especially in a world that belittles Black people, it says we see you, we hear you and we acknowledge your efforts. The most important thing is that we can do these things for each other in small ways too. We remember feeling so elated when Alicia of @_lasantera shouted us out on Instagram. A full out one minute message thanking us for the work we embarked on. It was so unexpected but brought us so much joy. And it has been the same each time someone DMs us. It has been “a buen tiempo” just the right time like drops of water on fertile soil when we have considered stopping and giving up. It’s like messages from the source, from the Universe holding us, pushing us, lifting us up. And so we thank you each person who shared our posts, each person who donated black dolls, each person who bought a DR Loves Haiti T-shirts or Dominicans Love Haitians Movement tshirt, each person who has invited us to participate in something to push our message forward, each person who has said yes to us, each person who said how can we support, each person willing to cocreate with us, each person sending us good thoughts. We even give thanks for the misguided, ignorant people every time they send a message we know we are doing what needs to be done to shift this racialized culture we currently live in. We give thanks to the Alumni and Cccadi @cccadi Administration for creating space for us as people of the African Diaspora to be our authentic selves. #takingupspace #takingspace #awardsandrecognition #culturalwarrior #culturalworker #disruptthenarrative #decolonizeyourmind #loveisrevolutionaryact #loveliberation #kiskeyalibre #ayitimonamour #ayitikiskeyabohio #dominicanslovehaitiansmovement #dominicanhaitian #haitiandominican (at Caribbean Cultural Center (CCCADI)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B11F6EZFG7A/?igshid=1celmtz29ip4a
