My people
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.
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.
To be part of offering and receiving the care of sisterhood is available to everyone…and may be the key to our shared survival.
Spaces over the next few months – both in-person and online – I’m involved in where our whole selves and deepest truths can emerge.
We can’t do this work alone, so we must dwell much more often where we are connected to each other.
A people’s movement is rising in Zimbabwe. Is aid and philanthropy paying attention?
What will it take to dismantle the power structures that perpetuate inequality and bigotry in aid, philanthropy, social enterprise, and impact investing? (Plus, a sampling of resources/conversations on solidarity.)
Once people decide to be outward facing, concerned about the suffering in the world and wanting to express their sense of responsibility to others, how can we invite and support them to also transform themselves?
What does it feel like to be a citizen on the receiving end of international aid? An analogy to try to help international do-gooders understand.
How many times had I been him? Just wanting to get through to the next stage to achieve those ever-elusive results? Demonstrating my own ignorance and intolerance? Wreaking havoc and unleashing anger as a result?
“He pushed me out into the aisle, where I stood, shoeless, feeling ashamed, and fighting hard not to cry.” Sharing a poignant personal story from the pages of The Sun Magazine on the experience of being at the receiving end of help.
Sharing excerpts of twelve papers on international development and aid effectiveness from my reading pile.
Is fundraising using ‘pitiful’ images justified if charitable organizations use the money effectively? Duncan McNicholl, founder of the “Perspectives of Poverty” project, responds on how-matters.org.
How many times had I been him? Just wanting to get through to the next stage to achieve those ever-elusive results? Demonstrating my own ignorance and intolerance? Wreaking havoc and unleashing anger as a result?
Aid recipients “are more concerned about ‘how’ assistance is provided than how much is given.” Initial findings from The Listening Project, a systematic exploration of the insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient end of international assistance efforts.