Social Justice Mage

I’ve considered calling this new blog that. I might.

I want to do magic with words

I want to transform the world, with the help of other social justice warriors and social justice mages.

It’s a little tongue in cheek but I mean it too.

I am a role play nerd, and I love to play the magic users.

Because I want a world that has magic in it.

I want a world so bitterly broken to have magic in it.

And the gift and the skill that I have most in this world is listening and absorbing and reading & transforming that energy into words.

Taking a feeling, an experience, and putting words to it.

I’ve felt angry and bitter about social justice for awhile.

I’ve felt like it’s too much of a game and not enough of a movement.

It’s felt…well, some of the things we’re accused of. Divisive.

And I do not care about being divisive in terms of dividing ignorant from truthful ideas. Bigots from those trying to eradicate their power.

But I don’t want to divide people who are all trying to achieve the same goals.

People who are trying to survive.

I’m an academic and an intellectual, and I don’t want to tell people that makes me right.

I want to see the truth in everything, I want to find the truth where it hides and where it shines.

I want to be an artist again.

I want to feel passion again.

I want to remember what’s important.

I want to talk about lived experience.

I want to talk about other things too.

I want people to remember lived experience means lived experience, not words that indicate without thought what lived experiences must have occurred.

That means to me that I love labels but they stop being useful sometimes.

That I love words for things.

Words for things are my spells and my comfort and my home.

But words for things…have limits

That sometimes we need more words.

Sometimes we need no words, just hands held.

Sometimes we need to listen again, when we have just gotten used to our voices being heard.

I’m very tired.

Tired of the world being the way it is. Tired of activism hurting too.

I’m exhausted that trying to heal the world isn’t working.

Maybe I want to be the social justice cleric.

But doesn’t that involve some kind of…religiosity?

Maybe I tried to heal the world as a social justice cleric

Save it as a social justice warrior

And now I’m ready to be what I always love being — a social justice mage.

Come with me on this journey?