When your actions don’t seem to have any impact, you can feel powerless.
But you can have a real impact
- even if you don’t always see it.
LET'S REFLECT
How do I define impact?
LET'S REFLECT
What do I expect to change when I take a certain action?”
Without friends or community
that care or that you can talk to about social change issues, it’s easy to feel like it shouldn’t matter to you either.
LET'S REFLECT
How do the people in my life currently respond to social change issues?
LET'S REFLECT
How does it impact me?
Personal encounters with racism and the harmful
impacts of oppression
can leave you feeling disempowered and disillusioned.
LET'S REFLECT
How have I been impacted by oppression or racism? How might it be affecting me now?
How distant we think we are from an issue and its impact can
make you unaware it exists,
or not care about it.
LET'S REFLECT
Why am I not engaging with this issue?
LET'S REFLECT
Why do I feel like it doesn’t affect me?
Personal encounters with racism and the harmful
impacts of oppression
can leave you feeling disempowered and disillusioned.
LET'S REFLECT
What comes up for me when I think about speaking up or needing to ‘know enough’ to do something?