Episode 610.5 - Joining (Part 4 of 4 on Social Justice)

 The Halo Halo Podcast brings back its suite of four Social Justice centered episodes for this month of February. In this fourth and final episode, Jezzie reviews the framework we shared with our listeners to aid them to decipher the value of a social movement. This framework can also serve as a basis to help us engage in a more meaningful fashion as opposed to just superficial engagement. It also means that it takes time, commitment and being a good ally. Good allyship involves:

• Being actionable— does what we say match our behaviour ?;
• Using your privilege to support those that we are joining in a social movement;
• Being okay with being criticized and sometimes embracing the discomfort;
• Not expecting the social movement or others to educate you and
• Not equating your own struggles with those of the social movement.