IN THE SPOTLIGHT — RESTORING FAITH IN HUMANITY

Until We Are All Free

By Shay Khan

I never pictured that I would watch a genocide unfold in real-time from the comfort of my home on the same device I use to call my mom. But for the last two years, that has been the reality for anyone with an internet connection and the heart to keep watching. And it’s taken heart—a lot of it.

‘Liking’ and re-sharing videos of people suffering has been a strange and horrible experience. There were many times I had to put my phone down and sob. It all felt so pointless. And I felt so powerless. But I kept doing it, kept picking up my phone again and again—kept ‘liking’ and resharing.

Debating literal genocide with friends and family was not on my 2024 bingo card. I’ve lost friends over it. I know I’m not the 197 only one. Something I kept hearing over and over again was, I just can’t watch. It’s too hard.

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