two things you should read!
1) stop saying this is a nation of immigrants!
by roxanne dunbar-ortiz
2) learning from history: freedom summer, current summer
by yours truly :)
in love and struggle,
j
Showing posts with label age dynamics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label age dynamics. Show all posts
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Friday, September 4, 2009
teaser of more interesting things to come
i really want to post about this new social justice fund in northampton that i'm excited about, called the markham-nathan fund for social justice. a family friend- who i respect and admire tremendously- is starting it and i have been involved in the preliminary planning meetings. things i want to think/write/talk more about include:
- age dynamics: paternalism and how sometimes its annoying, and sometimes it helps to have someone else (older) advocating for your voice; feeling young and thus obviously inexperienced AND simultaneously feeling young and thus obviously way more knowledgeable than older folks
- cycles of money-moving and the definition of social justice: frustration with people who are founding a supposedly social justice fund assuming that it's reasonable to write an 8-page grant report with a detail profit & loss statement and budget for a $3,000 grant. aren't we trying to move AWAY from oppressive philanthropy?!
- [tangent from above] how indoctrinated we all are with How Things Are that we have a hard time even envisioning How Things Could Be
- how no one necessarily has any idea what they're doing so creating new things- together, collectively- can be so exciting and powerful. and also dangerous and scary.
more later!! xoxo
- age dynamics: paternalism and how sometimes its annoying, and sometimes it helps to have someone else (older) advocating for your voice; feeling young and thus obviously inexperienced AND simultaneously feeling young and thus obviously way more knowledgeable than older folks
- cycles of money-moving and the definition of social justice: frustration with people who are founding a supposedly social justice fund assuming that it's reasonable to write an 8-page grant report with a detail profit & loss statement and budget for a $3,000 grant. aren't we trying to move AWAY from oppressive philanthropy?!
- [tangent from above] how indoctrinated we all are with How Things Are that we have a hard time even envisioning How Things Could Be
- how no one necessarily has any idea what they're doing so creating new things- together, collectively- can be so exciting and powerful. and also dangerous and scary.
more later!! xoxo
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