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feeling good in my body is not antithetical to doing good. doing good in this world does not have to come at the expense of feeling good in my body, mind, and spirit. I was invited to submit a creative project as part of the 2022/2023 Transformation Storytelling Fellowship by Community Foundations of Canada. The prompt given was: Share an expression of the future(s) you hope for using any kind of creative medium (video, visual art, poetry, music, blog or any other form of your choice). In thinking about the work of equity and justice, I vision before me clenched jaws, tight fists in the air, and razor-sharp eyes glaring right at me. My understanding and socialization of justice has predominantly been that ‘nothing good comes easy’. More than that, the pursuit of liberation and social well-being has, paradoxically, meant that my own well-being is compromised or undermined. I ask myself then, “How is it that martyrdom has become a pre-requisite for justice?” I feel cracks and faults deve

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