Anti-Oppression Statement

BLACK LIVES MATTER. LGBTQIA+ LIVES MATTER. THE HARM COMMITTED AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS, BLACK AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF COLOR, TRANSGENDER COMMUNITIES, AND OTHERS EXPERIENCING UNIQUE OR OVERLAPPING SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION IS VERY REAL, AND WE HAVEN’T DONE ENOUGH TO FIGHT IT.

Our past go-with-the-flow mentality was lazy, defensive, and dangerous. It’s a problem that it took such visible expressions of pain in oppressed communities for us to raise our voices and choose to transform ourselves. The only path forward is to interrupt the racist systems from which we continue to benefit and understand their historical context. To examine the harm embedded in our communication, thoughts, impulses, and speech. To learn where our community is in need and how we can sustainably participate in serving those needs, to support mutual aid solutions, community organizing, and expanding access to opportunity. To treat the mission of understanding our own racism as the matter of life and death that it is.

Thank you for continuing to grow with us. Thank you for holding us accountable. Please keep in mind that if you have any uncertainty regarding whether you align with the Black Lives Matter movement or the collective pursuit to dismantle patriarchal white supremacy, this is not the place for you.

Katie Us, L.Ac., Dipl. Ac.
Kismet Acupuncture & Apothecary

Thanks to Turkey and the Wolf for sharing their anti-oppression statement and allowing me to make it applicable to the magic healing place.