The Arise Podcast

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?
igshid=MzRIODBiNWFIZA==
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

17/06/2023

Kitsap residents are gearing up to celebrate Juneteenth, this year on June 17, with the annual People's March and a freedom festival in Bremerton.

01/06/2023

After a few months hiatus, Partly that is due to me, Danielle Rueb - Castillejo, doing this on my own, and also just in February, having a town hall and gathering the Latino/a/x community together, and which this situation with the school board has not been resolved yet. This is the history of the "...

10/04/2023

Often trauma survivors hold themselves responsible for all or part of the harm they have experienced, which sets them up for being shaped and driven by the burden of responsibility for their own harm resulting in shame and self-contempt.

Naming the particularity of the harm people have experienced, including: the responsible person, any co-conspirators, the motives of the harm and intentionality, brings much needed freedom to the survivor.

If helping professionals are not this thorough, they risk the trauma survivor living with a life sentence and paying for a crime they didn’t commit. This false conviction steals life, agency and freedom from the survivor.

May we all come to step into our stories of harm and tell a truer story of what we experience and have others help us see what we needed to do to survive those moments. May we all have people in our lives that help us see the goodness in how we needed to make it through painful and at time unbearable situations. May we grow in our capacity to offer ourselves self-compassion.

23/03/2023

17/03/2023

César Chávez: «No podemos buscar logros para nosotros mismos y olvidarnos del progreso y la prosperidad de nuestra comunidad. Nuestras ambiciones deben ser lo suficientemente amplias para incluir las aspiraciones y necesidades de los demás, por su bien y por el nuestro».

Los problemas que enfrenta la comunidad latina están profundamente arraigados en el racismo histórico del condado de Kitsap, la discriminación y el daño resultante a otros que son percibidos como «diferentes». Las familias latinas comparten una importante conexión indígena con las tribus Suquamish y Port Gamble S’Klallam, en cuyas tierras ancestrales somos huéspedes. Estamos profundamente agradecidos por el apoyo y la abogacía de estas tribus para lograr la justicia y el bienestar, no solo de ellos mismos, sino también de muchas otras comunidades del condado de Kitsap, incluida la nuestra.

Como vecinos socialmente comprometidos en nuestra economía, invertimos en nuestro condado, también estamos profundamente comprometidos con la educación de nuestros hijos. Empoderamos a nuestra comunidad latina y otras comunidades de color, que también soportan el impacto del racismo y la discriminación, construyendo puentes y creando un movimiento hacia la verdad, el bienestar y la reconciliación.

NKSD declaró: “ Los estudiantes y las familias deben sentirse bienvenidos y tener un sentido de pertenencia en nuestras escuelas. Cuando hay barreras para esto, depende de nosotros tener conversaciones valientes para hacer cambios significativos..”

17/02/2023

17/02/2023

06/02/2023

Town Hall Event/

Comunidad en Conversación.

February 7th, 2023/Febrero 7, 2023 — 6:30 p.m./Chocmo (Poulsbo)19225 8th Ave NE, Poulsbo

31/01/2023

Junta

07/12/2022

Bethanee Randles of Elevate Strength and Conditioning talks with Danielle S. Castillejo about entrepreneurship, inclusivity, the pandemic and healing through movement. Bethanee's community-oriented business is located on Bainbridge Island and she and her time work to "build powerful humans."

26/11/2022

Members of the Latino community gathered at a meeting this week to share their experiences with the high school principal.

17/11/2022

Episode Summary
Welcome To the Arise podcast with Alethea Lamberson, conversations on faith, race, justice, gender and healing. And just wanna welcome a colleague and a dear friend. She's located in the Atlanta area and I love who she is. She is about belonging, she is about being with others in their stories. She's about being authentic and true to what she believes. And I'm just so honored to have her with me today and it's election season. So we're gonna get into it and talk a little bit about that belonging Tiffany Cross from MSNBC whose contract wasn't renewed. And I encourage you to listen in and with curiosity and hold space for any kind of resistance you feel and just be curious about that and jump in with us.

https://the-arise-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/season-4-episode-8-alethea-lamberson-danielle-s-castillejo-on-tiffany-cross-elections-and-equity

Welcome To the Arise podcast with Alethea Lamberson, conversations on faith, race, justice, gender and healing. And just wanna welcome a colleague and a dear friend. She's located in the Atlanta area and I love who she is. She is about belonging, she is about being with others in their stories. She'...

18/10/2022

Episode Summary
And this week you're going to listen in on a conversation between myself, Rebecca Wheeler Walston, and TJ P**n. We're all part of a project we've been working on together for over a year now. And, and as part of that project, we're exploring the Latinx experience in, in this time. And so what, what we're doing in this conversation is kind of fleshing out, like, what does it mean to have an intercultural conversation in with the primary lens of Latinx culture?

And this week you're going to listen in on a conversation between myself, Rebecca Wheeler Walston, and TJ P**n. We're all part of a project we've been working on together for over a year now. And, and as part of that project, we're exploring the Latinx experience in, in this time. And so what, what....