09/13/2025
There is a very specific reason we don't post responses to highly charged events on our farm page. It's sort of about "professionalism" as a business, but it's mostly about maintaining space for healthy and positive relationships with people in our farm community, who represent a huge variety of political and social spectrums.
We don't ever want anyone to come on our page or see our content and words and feel unsafe or alone because our views or who we support politically feel like an attack on them personally. We have definitely experienced this, and it is very isolating.
We may not agree on a LOT of things, but we know there so many things we still share, and we don't want to miss out on that. That doesn't mean we hide who we are or expect others to - far from it. It means who we all are can fit around the same table when we are making the effort not to stomp on each other.
We don't need to be close personal friends with every Silkie breeder. We've got our inner circle and others have theirs and that's normal. But we DO want to be friendly, supportive in each other's goals with our flocks and farms, talk about or farm kids, support each other through predator attacks and sick chickens - to RELATE to folks in this shared experience. Take it from this visibly q***r, fat, outspoken and extremely liberal Californian Silkie breeder and business owner - how many conservative white southern Christians do you think I have in my life? How many big ole liberal d***s are in yours? But here we are, and many of us are friends.
We cross isles and bridges in communities like this. It gives us the opportunity that so many don't have in their daily lives to get to know people we wouldn't otherwise as human beings and see just how alike we all really are. It takes some mindfulness, and some care, to preserve that space in front of us and invite other to walk into.
Something to consider as we navigate challenging events in our world.
[Pic of a Dam Kid with her very favorite emotional support chicken.]
