You Are Already Whole
How a perspective shift can introduce compassion and change our lives
Who are you?
If I asked you this question, how would you respond?
Girlfriend. Dog mom. Daughter. Sister. Gardener. Southerner. White female.
Humans need labels, boxes, and a way of organization to make sense of the world around them.
Race is a construct and so is gender, and these constructs are how we make sense of life and relate to each other.
Some of our constructs are healthy. Being able to identify as a sister or a daughter or simply as a family member helps us understand that we share genetic information with some people.
It helps us understand where we come from- and belonging is very important to human beings, whether we find it in our birth families or somewhere else.
Other constructs serve as a way to oppress certain people by skin tone and sex assigned at birth.
Society very quickly assigned certain sets of qualities to the masculine and feminine, for example, leading to the misogynistic society we see today and have seen in many(but not all) civilizations for centuries.
As useful and/or damaging as our perception of the world through constructs can be…
