The Much Needed Re-Education We Need

Giselle Flores Alvarado
6 min readJun 9, 2020
Photo by Koshu Kunii on Unsplash

I, like many other poc and white folk, benefit from anti-blackness and the systemic racism that permeates violently though our society.

I want change, I want everyone to be able to walk out their door and feel safe. However, that has not been the case. Racism is so embedded in our society as well as the systems that uphold our society. It is this violence that has allowed police brutality to exist…

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Giselle Flores Alvarado

I’m a Brown student pursing a BA in literary arts and on my way to an MFA in creative writing. I write and read about love, identity, and womanhood.