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 🌟 Reclaiming the Holidays: A Season to Reflect, Re-imagine, and Rise 🌟

The holidays. For some, they come wrapped in warm traditions, family gatherings, and the comfort of belonging. For others, they bring the shadows of an unspoken reality—painful memories, the weight of historical injustice, and the fight for dignity that still rages on.

As the world slows down for a season of reflection, it’s hard to ignore the contradictions. We’re told this is a season of joy and giving, yet many are left grappling with systems that continue to take—lands taken from Indigenous peoples, lives stolen by the violence of inequity, and futures limited by the barriers of oppression. Even now, new versions of these old injustices creep into our daily lives: the harm of over-policing, the inequity of economic systems, and the pain of being unseen or unheard.

But this season can be something else. 

What if we reclaimed the holidays as a time not just for survival but for transformation?



At Black Lives Matter Georgia, we’re not waiting for change to happen. We’re building it together, block by block, heart by heart. This season, we invite you to join us in re-imagining the holidays as a time of justice, unity, and resilience.

✨ Truth as the Path to Healing

The holidays can be a time to pause and honor truth—no matter how uncomfortable it may be. The truth of stolen lands and broken treaties. The truth of systems that were built to exclude and exploit. The truth that, even now, many in our communities face threats to their safety, security, and basic dignity.

But truth, when embraced, becomes the foundation for healing. By naming and acknowledging what has been lost, we begin to reclaim what is possible.

This season, ask yourself:

  • What truths have shaped your journey?
  • How can we honor the past while creating space for the future?

✨ Action That Unites

This time of year is often framed as a season of giving—but let’s take it further. Let’s make it a season of doing. Doing for our neighbors. Doing for the vulnerable. Doing for the future we want to see.

Unity isn’t just an ideal—it’s a strategy. When we stand together, we protect each other. When we share resources, we build power. And when we act as one, we dismantle the systems designed to divide us.

Imagine this season not as a moment of fleeting generosity, but as a spark of lasting action:

  • Supporting Black-owned businesses to build economic equity.
  • Hosting conversations in your community about justice and history.
  • Advocating for policies that protect those most at risk.

This season, unity isn’t an abstract wish. It’s a call to action.

✨ Love in the Struggle

Amid the challenges, there’s something that always remains: love. Not the soft, fleeting kind, but the fierce, unyielding love of a people who have endured and thrived despite everything.

This season, let’s celebrate the love that drives us to protect, to nurture, and to create. The love of our ancestors, who dreamed of a freedom they never saw but fought for anyway. The love we have for future generations, who deserve the justice we were denied.

This is the love that turns grief into purpose, anger into action, and despair into hope.

The Holidays We Deserve

Yes, the holidays are complicated. They can be a time of grief, a time of reckoning, and a time of profound hope. But they are also an opportunity.

  • An opportunity to reflect on where we’ve been.
  • An opportunity to reclaim what has been taken.
  • An opportunity to rise as a community committed to justice, care, and transformation.

What if this year, the holidays weren’t just about escaping reality—but about reshaping it? Together, we can make this season a time of reflection, reclamation, and resilience.

What does the holiday season mean to you?

Share your story. Speak your truth. Let’s build a season that’s not about fleeting joy but about lasting justice.

This year, let’s reclaim the holidays—not just for a few, but for all of us. Let’s make this a season that reflects the power of unity, the strength of truth, and the unshakable love that binds us.

✨ Join us this holiday season. Reflect, reclaim, and rise with us. Together, we can build a brighter future. ✨

#ReclaimTheHolidays #BLMGeorgia #JusticeSeason #HealingTogether #CommunityCare

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