All around the world, countries are falling into the arms of right wing parties. Germany with AfD, Netherlands with the Party for Freedom, Donald Trump in the USA and dozens of other countries, are moving with an accelerating speed into the direction that we have so carefully been trying to back away from over the last decades. Praising patriarchal systems, striving for the rising of walls, and ignoring, even denying, climate change. We are flung back into a trapping past and flung forward into an unsure future. Women, LGBTQ+ members and People of Color have to once more live in dread, because of unchangeable attributes. Attributes like gender, sexuality and skin color. Attributes that were once decided in the long span of mankind’s history, to be something obtrude and something that needs to be divided.
Through these changes, society is splitting into many little groups. All are working against each other. All are trying to dictate and impose their opinions on the others. And we all think so different. But there is one thing in common with us all… we are all in fear. We are cracking under it. And out of this fear, hate has sipped back into our society. Spreading into every little crack that fear has made and carving deep, foggy valleys into us. Reaching, nesseling itself into unreachable corners of our mind.
The war in Ukraine and Gaza at our doorstep, reminds us daily how the peace is even in the safest spaces an illusion. People have to flee their countries, because if they stayed they could be faced with pain or even death. Others don’t even have the opportunity to flee anymore. Women in Afganistan have less rights than animals in a zoo. Raising sea levels and unbearable heat waves are making areas that were once livable, inhabitable. And even if you try to look away, the facts are there. Always right in front of us. And so we fear. And so we hate.
But this has been till now. It doesn’t have to be hate that spreads, it can be something else. Something that breezes the fog away and lightens up the valleys. Something that builds bridges over the cracks and mends the pain that we have been feeling. Something like hope. Something like trust. Trust that if we can, we will. Hope that we are enough to overcome the hate and pain in the world. A soft light spreads through us. The dark corners shine with a steady glow. And we go on. We understand and we listen. We take the hope and look beyond our differences. We gather strength and fight for what is right. We fight for the women in Afganistan, for the People of Color in America, for the LGBTQ+ members in Russia. We fight for the voices that cannot be heard anymore. We fight for the people that can not hope anymore.
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