Laura Dowling

You know, so as new people are coming in and out of our society and our community, that we're not immediately looking at their skin colour and actually wanting to understand their story.

And some people with Indian, Pakistani, Afghani, African descent might have not experienced anything we just discussed about, but they might know somebody.

And it's better to be educated than ignorant, because right now we're living in that ignorance.

No.

No.

Like I said earlier, democracy is never finished.

But we are in the juncture of we either are rolling back at a pace that will take us decades to overcome again, or we're educated enough and understanding enough, empathetic enough to know what is happening in rooms, in schools,

parts of the world, in our houses, in online or offline is not good enough.

And when we look at this through women's lens, then it's like, how can we continue to ignore the 51% of the population?

How can we continue to do that in so many different facets of our life?

It's not good enough anymore.

And then what do we collectively do about it?

Well,

We find people, whether they're male or female, who talk about the issues that we're passionate about.

We educate ourselves.

We start reaching out.

That's really exhausting.

And from that comes various forms of trauma.

But if we're not willing to meet people or try and find people to connect with, then that's the society we're going to build.

And I didn't want to ignore your question around loneliness because I think it's really important.