While I have been active in sharing and amplifying other voices, like so many, I have used "it's complicated" to justify my silence and hopes for the end to the suffering in Gaza. Welp, knowing there may be personal and professional risks, I've written some words. "Now, before demands are made for me to denounce or affirm anything to be heard, to be clear, I believe that humans can grieve and have compassion for multiple communities, even communities that inflict pain and violence upon one another. I also do not believe that anyone has to prove or earn compassion from other human beings, and I will never rejoice at or seek the death of anyone. I have known the grief of violent death too closely to allow myself to give into postures of revenge and vengeance. And finally, no "side" is pure in tactics, personalities, or perspectives, so refuse to engage in any form of Oppression Olympics, whataboutism, or causality score-keeping." Read the entire post, "Showing up for Palestine," via ...