OPPORTUNITY: Instead of letting an unjust culture flow through our mouths and our lives, we can interrupt it — and we can make a new one.
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The Fantasy of Being Holiday Fabulous gets in the way of actually having fabulous holidays. So let’s retire it. [H/t Kate Harding’s LIFE ALTERING 2009 essay, The Fantasy of Being Thin]
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I know that when I’ve wanted someone else’s life, it made me transactional, strategic, subservient, and sometimes envious. In other words: not a safe friendship or business bet.
And I know that when friends, lovers or colleagues wanted what I had, we always ended in conflict and destruction. Always.
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The best thing we ever do is lean on each other and lift each other up because we are the culture makers, and together we rise.
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The way we use our time is predetermined and overdetermined by our society and gender roles, and society frames our productivity as “personal choices.”
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“In fact, many full-time artist reports that they have become more creatively rounded into full-time people.” – Julia Cameron. I struggle with this exactly!
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This photo makes me smile. Admittedly, talking with my hands is perhaps not the most effective way to communicate on the radio.
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Graffiti awesomeness by Banksy. Looks like we are all circling around the same phenomenon, trying to figure it out…and maybe change it.
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“Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked female” – Erin McKean. A note on checking our sources, and citations as culture making moves.
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A lot of what comes out of our mouths — and even what we think — is predetermined by our conditioning, our culture. We can, and must, interrupt this.
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