Long-distance in this pandemic -- XOTV Weekly
This week we are blessed with the storytelling skills of Brittany Du Bois, who takes us with her on the rollercoaster journey of traveling to France in the middle of this pandemic, all in the name of love.
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A Modern Love Story
With all the immense historical changes that have happened in the last year, there has been one theme that comes back to warm me up and make me feel OK again, and that’s love.
The love that shone through the Black Lives Matter movement. The love that shone through our local communities as neighbor helped neighbor see out the economic hardships this pandemic has spotlighted (yes, we can indeed confirm that America did not and does not have the social foundations to help its people during a true crisis). And today, I’m talking about the love that shone through a movement that most people have not even heard of: Love is not Tourism.
I have been in a long-distance relationship for over two years now. We met back in October of 2018. I was a stressed-out NYU junior in the healthy stretch of a breakup, and he was a starry-eyed French exchange student at St. John’s University. We learned of each other’s humble backgrounds and fell in love after our first date. He spoke English, though anyone passing by could see that I had to speak at 0.5 speed and repeated myself so often for him that I ended up doing it without him having to ask me to. ..read more.
Opportunities
Storytelling and Racial Healing
This week's opportunity is a thoughtpiece about the power of a story when faced with the daunting task of uniting a country. Dive in with Henerey to explore the storytelling in a new way.
And lastly, we are partnered with the wonderful Culturs to create this newsletter. Culturs is the home for people who straddle the intersections of Race, Ethnicity, culture, home and more. Read their article on XOTV here.