Celebrating Grace Lee Boggs

𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 who created a pathway for Asian Americans like me to take up space, use my voice unapologetically, and to move from being a revolutionary to a solutionary. 🙏🏾 😊 Grace Lee Boggs was one of the first examples of what a badass auntie was, who called people out on their 💩 and made them cry from a tender place of radical love.

She defied the stereotype of a quiet and obedient Asian woman, practiced #intersectionality before there was a word for it, and challenged people to imagine what’s possible when we envision what a beloved community can look like while doing the work to get there. Through her words, my rage was channeled into creativity as I celebrated this as my contribution (while once feeling like I wasn’t doing enough for the “movement”). She spent her later years cultivating community gardens in vacant lots of Detroit. She taught me that one of the most radical things you can do is stay put. And while I don’t have my garden (yet) I’m most definitely here to plant seeds of possibilities for the next generation. 🌱 ⁣
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What elder auntie ancestral figure are you calling in who I can read up on next?
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