Finding Justice in an Unjust World

Does it feel like each new headline highlights the injustices of the world? From systems of harm, oppression, and division, these realities feel like an unmovable weight to bear witness to. When the world is on fire and hope seems bleak, I light a fire to warm my spirit. I do not give in to hopelessness and indifference.

I anchor myself to the things and words that direct my compass of hope and value in action. Finding justice can mean connecting with like-minded individuals, sharing spaces, and laying the groundwork for community care. It can appear as if you're slowing down, taking formative steps to meet your needs and ground your nervous system with intention. What keeps me hopeful for tomorrow includes acts of mutual aid, healing practices, and voicing soul-calling efforts. These efforts exist in the quietest spaces just as in the loud spaces. The systems of harm by oppressive factors want the barren, the lack of care, and the indifference in you and me.

With resistance comes rest and compassionate care. I find the ember to light a fire where I can manage efforts to resist time and again. No action is perfect, but inaction creates space for apathy.

Resistance means answering the call to fight efforts of injustice, existing in Queer bodies, racialized bodies, and harmed bodies throughout systems of oppression, is an act in itself. When you are existing outside the realm of societal expectations, othered, and in defiance, the fight may be more delicate, however, not impossible. As a first-generation immigrant from the Global South and queer, racialized person, this fight is familiar.

Are you seeking a therapeutic space for validation and rapport for assurance in this fight? Email me at martha@marthasegoviacalles.ca to see if we are a good fit!