I am writing this post because this is something I regularly forget. I feel like as an activist I have a job or go to school then I do my activism and that's my life. That is not the case and it is not the case of any activists I work with. We started off my Latinx meeting with my friend walking in the door saying "I'm in a good mood because I got banged." We responded "Yas!" as queerly as possible. We just talked and caught up for about an hour before we got down to business. Not talking about our other projects or work but our lives. Like going to a football game and dressing up for Halloween. We are all in relationships so we obviously talked about our partners. But no talk of accolades or awards we were receiving. Just being normal people for once. I think that we forget that we are normal people where time is such a valuable commodity now we don't take the time to just talk. We come together do the work and forget that we've made a friend in the process. Another living breathing human. Activist are very close to real life super heros. We do amazing incredible work for the community for free. We definitely held the higher stranders because we are expected to do more. We start expecting more from ourselves and lose our personess. Which is why I often forget when I'm at a meeting that we are people. Yes I'm in the room with many noteworthy people for doing amazing things but they are still people. I am still a person. I have friends, a social life, a lovely partner, ect. I'm more than my work and I can share that with my fellow activist because they probably want to relax for a second and just talk. The struggle of forgetting that I'm a person and I don't have to be on all the time.
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