Rebeccah Silence argues that building equity starts at home: stop making disrespectful remarks about LGBTQ people and culturally biased comments about how others look or speak. Some relationships will shift as your values deepen, and that's the cost of alignment.
You want to call people in, and you don't want to ruin all your relationships. But when you really, really are anchored in this, you may find people, they're not going to be in your circle, or you have to limit time with them as you really, really realize. My moral heart tells me it's not right to treat people that way. It's not right to be in circles that are disrespectful to LGBTQ folks. It's not okay to say, oh, she shouldn't wear hair like that, or why does she look that way? Oh, look at those people talking. We in another language. That's not okay. They need to speak English. So we need to understand that as we really become the persons we say we want to be, the more our heart comes in alignment. So.