Celebrating Loving Day 2021.

We celebrated Loving Day for the first time in June 2020, less than a month after we started dating. It is wild that the law, Loving v Virginia, passed so recently - in 1967 - that allowed interracial couples like us to legally marry in the US. Let’s let that sink in.

Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested in 1958 for being a married, interracial couple in Virginia. Their union “violated” the law and their case eventually made it to the US Supreme Court which decided that anti-miscegenation laws such as the one that landed the Lovings in jail and stripped them of their freedom, dignity, and respect, were illegal, rooted in white supremacy, and were very anti-Black. We agree.

We decided to not wait until June 12 every year to celebrate Loving Day, we celebrate it daily.

This year, we are excited to share Revolutionary Love with you all - our family, our community - on June 12, 2021, 54 years after Mildred and Richard Loving fought for our freedom to love across the color spectrum. Now don’t get us wrong, we see color and celebrate differences, we do not believe in being or living “colorblind.” That said, we are grateful for the Lovings’ resilience and persistence in fighting for their love, which subsequently has allowed us to enjoy our love, as an interracial, married couple.

When people say, “Racism was so long ago. Get over it.” That is factually incorrect. It wasn’t that long ago that we along with countless others in this country could not get married because of the color of our skin. It’s important for us to acknowledge this fact and continue to fight for the rights of all marginalized people - BIPOC/POC, LGBTQ+, disabled, chronically ill, undocumented, and more. We are all connected and the sooner we remember that, the better.

Want more information about Loving Day and why we celebrate it? Check out www.lovingday.org. Want more community? We’d love to have you join our Conversation Circles. It’s for our community, by our community.