PREFACE
No one is born a great ally, knowing everything people are going through, how you can best support them—and also how not to hurt them. Allyship is a journey, and each of our journeys looks a bit different.
I certainly was not born an ally. I’ve been working on it for many years. As a White1 girl, I feel lucky that I grew up in Oakland and South Seattle, both areas that were very racially, ethnically, and economically diverse. My friends were from many cultures, and about equally mixed boys and girls (I didn’t have any nonbinary2 friends that I knew of at the time). I learned from my friends who celebrated Chinese New Year and went to Chinese churches, Samoan Americans who celebrated and shared their cultural traditions with pride, Japanese ...
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