Mending fences
“I have witnessed how ‘mending fences’ was tied up with relinquishment of dignity…Many people in our social good sector have been required to be ‘the bigger person’ for far too long.”
“I have witnessed how ‘mending fences’ was tied up with relinquishment of dignity…Many people in our social good sector have been required to be ‘the bigger person’ for far too long.”
Decolonization is recognizing, interrogating, and challenging the forces/impact of domination, oppression, and external control in our lives (bodies, families, organizations, institutions, systems) that remain today.
Esto es para quienes les preocupa que los llamen arrogantes o ignorantes o rebeldes, pero aun así continúan.
Here’s to the ones who ask “why” openly in meetings because they just can’t tolerate the façade of “doing good.”
A local sovereign organisation is an authentic expression of the will and voice of its own constituents. While it may accept funding to provide services, it is not a surrogate vehicle for the projects of another agency’s purpose.
Sovereignty is both a quality to be developed and a right to be respected and defended. It is a particularly powerful concept when applied to organisation, suggesting authentic qualities, describing a home-grown resilience, an inside-out identity, the idea of an organisation being the expression of the free will of its own constituents.