An AFSC inter­view with Oskar Castro:

Me as a Puer­to Rican com­ing into Quak­erism, I find a lot of white par­a­digms, silence in and of itself is not exclu­sive­ly colo­nial­ism, but I think the way that Quak­ers some­times lean into silence beyond the spir­i­tu­al side of it, the con­flict avoid­ance side of being a Quak­er, these are the things that don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly res­onate with me, cul­tur­al­ly speaking 

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