The Arise Podcast

19/10/2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arise-podcast/id1486439308?i=1000673358191

19/10/2024

In this conversation therapist and advocate Danielle Castillejo connects with host Katy Stafford to consider how we best show solidarity for one another. Bridging their own experiences (and missteps) along their journeys of honoring difference, engaging culture and race, and owning their own impact, Katy and Danielle reflect on how solidarity begins with engaging your own story truthfully. Tune in for more of their fascinating back and forth and for the chance to think about your relationship with showing solidarity differently. 

20/05/2024

Inclusive Therapists

18/01/2024

11/01/2024

I wrote this well before Pete Carroll's exit yesterday.

I admire his style of leadership and hope to be a creator of space that is built on connection and our shared humanity.

I was never a bandwagon football fan. I grew up on Sunday afternoons, as young as five years old, listening to my father tell me about the details of football plays and how it all worked. My favori…

19/10/2023

“If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.” Delores Huerta Latina American labor leader and civil rights activist

15/10/2023

a time
for compassion and holding grief for the people of the Middle East
Sun, Oct 15, 2023
7:00 pm
Suquamish UCC
18732 Division Ave NE
Suquamish
gather at the
outdoor labyrinth
hosted by
faith &
spiritual leaders of Kitsap
Breaking Bread for Racial Justice

03/10/2023

“If you’ve been up all night and cried until you have no more tears left in you – you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.” C.S. Lewis
The rain pelts my office building, casting darkness too early even for the Pacific Northwest. Hot, hot, summers gave way to hope for long, semi-warm fall days. My flowers wilt in the shadows with me.

At some point I wander in. I don’t want to see anyone. Puppy at my side, I am alive, alone. A friend notes these dragging shoulders. That’s new, I think. I light candles.

Empty space has weight, too, I whisper. Emails fill my inbox of “What we should do and what we shouldn’t” and “What does this or that mean?” Or, “Do we file a lawsuit? Do we appeal to a corrupt school board?” Questions circle above and in between my work hours.

How do we pretend that we believe the lie? I shout to everyone.

Our participation in delusions has long worn off.

Like Edmund, we ate the Turkish delight offered by the system, relying on their forms, processes, hoping thier procedural laws built to oppress us would do something other. Our stories cemented in stones, the scars on our skin, un-dead, and un-done.

25/09/2023

A CALL TO ACTION

Questions to Email the District (email provided below):

What is your policy of saying the "N-word" in Spanish"?

What is your policy for using slang in Spanish equivalent to the "N-word" by teachers and students?

Do you allow your Spanish speaking staff to use "necessary" language including these slang words, which are culturally known to be the equivalent as the "N-word" or degrading?

Do you allow English teachers to use the "N-word" or the "B-word" to refer to African Americans or Mexicans in English class? Are these necessary terms in North Kitsap School District?

I ask the North Kitsap School District these questions, and I encourage you to do the same. Please email Rachel Davenport, Executive Director of Human Resources, and ask her for the answer to these questions. Her email is [email protected] .

What is your policy of saying the "N-word" in Spanish"? What is your policy for using slang in Spanish equivalent to the "N-word" by teachers and students? Do you allow your Spanish speaking staff to use "necessary" language including these words, which are cultu

14/09/2023

Michelle Obama says, “When they go low, we go high.” My dear African American colleague reminds me that supremacy creates a false dichotomy of the choices you have in a scenario – creating false equivalencies which are rarely true.

02/09/2023

These unconscionable crimes are committed in clusters. This isn’t new. First Florida, now this. The wave is cruel. Each community, each county, each city can center themselves in self examination, and check ins with family, friends, local law enforcement, city councils. As Poulsbo knows, it can happen anywhere.

Consider calling your Mayor, attending your local city council and contacting the law enforcement in your area to not only check in, but ask that they are working hard towards non violent engagement with community.

Thank you.

Family denounces fatal police shooting of pregnant Black woman Ta’Kiya Young as a “gross misuse of power” after Ohio authorities release police body-cam video.

15/08/2023

My SPU college buddy owns a food truck, pictured here, and they are unsure as of its status, being told it wasn't completely destroyed but also that it was looted. Right now they cannot access it. This is their livelihood and I am asking you all to consider any donation possible to support my friend and her family. https:// instagram.com/shayafusioncuisine?
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A lot of folks I know, including me and Luis have traveled to Maui and enjoyed the land, culture, people. Consider skipping eating out here and donating to this sweet family.

01/08/2023

Vote. Last day to get it done dia