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CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER WHITE PERSON, Part 1: Finding

  CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER WHITE PERSON, Part 1:  FINDING A note about Finding: I've been writing this, my fourth blog post for the last 2 months.  I write 3 or 4 days a week for several hours at a time.  And still, this hasn't been posted till very recently.  And it's short!  Why? My intention was to finally write some things out of my life.  To pass through a process of finding, naming, and metabolizing that would allow me to let some of this racialized trauma out of my body and make space for a better me.   But it took a lot more words than I thought it would take. I thought this was going to be 3 posts.   I ts now in the vicinity of 12.   I guess I have a lot I need to say.  Thanks for being here with me while I lay it all out. - Tara   ********** GESTATION So I've been in a space of deep gestation over these quarantine months. And I've realized that part of what I need is to heal from the racially traum...