Links: heart-breaking and heart-lifting

I fit the description… by Steve Locke, who was detained by police on his way to get lunch before teaching his next class at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Needless to say he is a Black man.

Nothing I am, nothing I do, nothing I have means anything because I fit the description.

A Love Letter to the Cycle Breakers by Annie Reneau. This focuses on parents, but it goes for everyone fighting to do better than they were done by.

So if you are a parent from a wounded background striving to raise your kids differently, if you are silently waging your own battles the rest of the world can’t see, I want you to know that you are awesome.