I read a post from @kal_dosanjh that broke my heart, about an 18 year old whose mom had sought help to get him out of gang life, who was taking positive steps, only for it not to be enough.
Throughout my journalism career I've pondered this question countless times, I've written about and researched this topic endlessly and the cycle only continues.
A mother mourns. And it cuts every single time.
"We as individuals have power if we claim it."
As a WOC, I know we loveeeee to leave our power on the table, but we have too much to offer the world to keep playing small. Impostor syndrome is cancelled.
#womeninleadership
I was featured as a journalist on an American program looking into the murder of Manjit Panghali in 2006.
Manjit's case is yet another tragic story of intimate partner violence in the Punjabi community--and I joined the conversation to contextualize some of the norms that culturally enable this type of violence.
Although there wasn't room for the entire conversation in the final product, I'm grateful for the opportunity to continue to shed light on these issues within our community, and slowly chip away at the cultural factors that uphold this kind of violence.
It’s easy to pretend caste is gone when it shows up as a lyric or a punchline. It’s harder to sit with the truth: systems survive because we feed them. Calling that out is how we stop the cycle.
#educateagitateorganize
