Articles by Caroline

Inspirational, resourceful, and tactful articles for all people looking to radically change the way they live their life through unapologetic self-love, faithful dream-chasing, bold advocacy, and intentional stewardship.

Election, White Supremacy, Personal Caroline Sumlin Election, White Supremacy, Personal Caroline Sumlin

If you're feeling gut-wrenched about your vote, this is for you.

I have wrestled with this for months — how to address the despair that many of us feel heading to the ballot box in the next few days. We are angry. We are exhausted. We are furious. We are grieved. We want nothing more than to dismantle this society that continues to work exactly as intended — keeping so many marginalized humans in bondage, operating off of proud imperialism and colonialism, funding a mass genocide, and upholding white supremacy at all costs. 

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White Supremacy, Motherhood Caroline Sumlin White Supremacy, Motherhood Caroline Sumlin

The Conversation I Had With My Daughters Ahead of Independence Day

“It’s not fair that freedom was only for white men,” she responds with disgust. We’ve discussed at length the irony and cruelty of the then-American colonies fighting for freedom from so-called tyranny while simultaneously holding enslaved persons captive and continuing to embezzle Indigenous lands and obliterate their population.

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White Supremacy, White Supremacy Culture Caroline Sumlin White Supremacy, White Supremacy Culture Caroline Sumlin

I'm Convinced: Individualism is Killing Us

This is not breaking news.

Saying the words, “America is an individualistic society,” is like saying “water is wet.” Yeah, we know. This is not breaking news. American society does not function without its populace completely buying into the belief that individualism is the one right way to function as a human.

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White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Parenting Caroline Sumlin White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Parenting Caroline Sumlin

What's Missing From the Trad Wife Trend Convo

If you had asked me a week ago if I knew what a trad wife was, I would have stared at you with a dumbfounded look on my face. I had never heard that term before. Honestly? I still wish I didn’t know. I would love to travel back in time to about seven days ago when my ignorance of what a trad wife is was strong. Sometimes, ignorance truly is bliss. But, alas, I now know what a trad wife is. I can thank TikTok for that. Someone mentioned this trad wife movement on another social media app, and in an effort to cure my ignorance, and at the risk of screwing up my algorithm, I took to TikTok to teach me about this odd phenomenon of trad wife-ism.

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White Supremacy, Self-Worth Caroline Sumlin White Supremacy, Self-Worth Caroline Sumlin

No One is Free Under White Supremacy

Our society’s desperation to keep whiteness and white people in power has not come without a grave cost to everyone who inhabits this society. That means you. And that means me. It is because of white supremacy that we have built a society that refuses more help to its citizens than any other developed nation in this world. It is because of white supremacy that we have withheld the human rights to safety, security, education, health care, public resources, child care, and more. It is white supremacy that wrote the very American narrative that even your most basic human rights must be deserved and earned.

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Black History, Capitalism, White Supremacy Caroline Sumlin Black History, Capitalism, White Supremacy Caroline Sumlin

How America Became a Bootstrap Culture that Refuses to Supply the Boots

America has defined itself as a country based on a race-based hierarchy that, through almost every structure, law, ordinance, and standard set by elite white men, is reinforced by class, education, land ownership, gender, and even beauty. Desperate to maintain the supremacy of whiteness, (specifically male-dominated whiteness), America provided handouts to white men, restricted access to everyone else, and told the lie that the success the white men experienced was solely based on meritocracy.

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