Brooke Richey explains the Strawberry Initiative, a campaign with the Blackbird Collective that helps trafficking survivors reclaim their voices. For Richey, strawberries symbolize healing: she avoided them for years after childhood trauma, and reclaiming them marked her turning point in regaining self-worth and agency.
Uh, hey Brooke, uh, what are you doing? Oh, I'm harvesting my strawberries. But didn't the season end like 6 weeks ago? Also, I don't think you can grow them like that with a gold keychain and hand crocheted. Oh, that's cuz These are magic strawberries made for the Strawberry Initiative with Blackbird Collective and Brooke Richey Music. Here, try one. Uh, okay, so is a vine just gonna climb to the sky or something? Well, sorta. These strawberries were made for the Strawberry Initiative with Brooke Richey Music and Blackbird Collective Band, a campaign created to help other human trafficking survivors and survivors of other traumas reclaim their voices, their identities, and their self-agency in the world. Because the best you is the best version for the world. Brooke, what? Wait, that's amazing! Where can I buy one? Also, why strawberries? Just head over to brookerichey.music, click on Mission, and you can learn more and contribute from there. And why strawberries? Because when it comes to overcoming the worst adversities, trauma, injustice, depression, whatever it is that is stealing your light, you have to remember the light in the darkness. And that for me is strawberries, something that I associated with my trauma at the age of 9 and stayed away from for years. But the thing is, the second I reclaimed these, In my life and in my diet is when I started reclaiming my self-agency, my worth, my voice, and my identity. So you have the keys. Will you carry the light with you?
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