So here's something from my Youtube page that, in light of the 2024 election cycle, I thought would be good to post here. Genocide always seems like hyperbole...until it's not.

(The video includes images of referenced articles and quotes, so if you benefit from seeing the text on-screen, please check out the link below.)

Description from Youtube episode released May 29, 2024:

I'm not a political commentator. In fact, I can only consume so much of the news cycle every week before my feelings of helplessness and hopelessness get too overwhelming.

Looking at all the atrocities humans have done and are currently doing to each other is so, so heartbreaking -- and honestly, traumatizing. However, you've got to understand the monstrous side of humanity in order to continuously choose compassion and empathy.

And, I don't know, maybe it's my neurodivergent brain, but having some academic knowledge helps me to understand and avoid (as much as humanly possible) the propaganda pitfalls that permeate social discourse these days.

REFERENCES & RESOURCES:
https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline

PDF of Ten Stages of Genocide: https://www.scasd.org/cms/lib5/PA01000006/Centricity/Domain/1482/TenStages.pdf

Ten Stages of American Indian Genocide (Chavez Cameron & Phan, 2018) file:///Users/Kimbrulee/Downloads/webmaster,+Edit3+Cameron.pdf

Link to James Baldwin quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11882302-love-has-never-been-a-popular-movement-and-no-one-s

United Nations on how to help ALL victims of the Israel-Gaza Crisis: https://www.un.org/en/situation-in-occupied-palestine-and-israel/donate