We Choose All of Us: An Emergent Worldview - Aisha Bain, Co-Founder, Vision not Victims/Resistance Communications; Andrew Sta. Ana, JD, Director of Legal Services, Day One; Nadiah Mohajir, MPH, Founder and Executive Director, HEART Women & Girls; Patina Park, JD, Executive Director of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center; Rosie Hidalgo, JD, Senior Director of Public Policy, Casa De Esperanza; and Vanessa Sapien, MA, Senior Program Officer/Clinician, Just Detention Internationa
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While the story of Idaho is one of intolerance and white supremacy, there is danger in that single story. Across our state and our country, our communities are comprised of people of color, Indigenous people, people who are immigrants, people whose status is undocumented, and people who are refugees, people who identify as LGBTQI, people who are Muslim, people with disabilities, people who are Deaf, and other historically marginalized communities.
We can embrace a worldview where We Choose All Us, where everyone has value, where we our worldview has transformed or has always been one to see the value of every human being in our communities; a worldview that embodies wholeness and interdependence - and centers solutions to interrupt violence on people who are most pushed out, most on the margins, historically marginalized communities. It is essential that all of us shift our worldview to see and value everyone in our state - pivoting toward a worldview that embodies wholeness and interdependence - and re-imagines how we can begin to repair the harm from the colonization, slavery, genocide, and more by centering the voices, lived experiences, and leadership of historically marginalized communities in creating solutions to interrupt violence.