Bellamy Shoffner is a single parent, writer, and equity advocate specializing in fostering thoughtful connection and conversation among communities. Shoffner’s Revolutionary Humans produces a magazine, retreats, and free community events. All for parents and educators committed to social justice.

This past summer the Joyful Courage community raised $800 in support of Bellamy and her work – I am so honored for the chance to connect with her here on the podcast.

Takeaways from the show

• Social justice
• Passive reading vs. retaining the information
• Hold the Line magazine
• Teaching our kids to be accepting of each other's differences
• Creating a world where kids can are out of harm’s way based on any part of their identity
• Acceptance vs tolerance
• Challenges of being a single parent 
• How outside help isn’t always appreciated
• Teasing apart tokenization
• Putting in the work to understand social justice
• Key things parents can do to fold racial awareness into parenting their kids
• Taking people as they are and see what happens
• Having relationship with vulnerability
• Dealing with people who have opposing views 

Find Bellamy:

Website | Instagram

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