Advice is not care
Is the social good sector a formalized advice delivery system for people who are marginalized, and donor funding the compliance enforcer?
Ease, Flow, Pace
“We are in a time of collective upheaval, grief, and crisis. Yet, in the social good sector, we keep requiring ourselves and our colleagues to go at an unsustainable pace. And it’s hurting us…”
Keep going in (Part IV)
“How do we help people understand: you don’t have to cling, you don’t have to dominate, you don’t have to hide, you don’t have to confine yourself.” PART IV of interview with Onyango Otieno
Don’t stop believing (Part III)
“They made life a business. I didn’t want to stay in the market. I wanted to stay in a community.” PART III of interview with Onyango Otieno
Honoring traditions
“Let us honor our teachers and those who shaped our practices by bringing specifics – their names, their places, their lineages – into all our sharing of these practices.”
So that we can see one another (Part II)
“We deserve equal time…We deserve equal measure of resources – just because we are here.” PART II of interview with Onyango Otieno
How to relate (Part I)
“I really love it when people connect to each other. Because it encompasses the idea that we need one another to make life work. We need one another.” PART I of interview with Onyango Otieno
Ancient Technologies
“This is the world I know I want to be a part of – one where we can all experiment, where we can stop performing, where we can belong, where we can relax, celebrate, and grieve and be confused…together.”
To show up
To be part of offering and receiving the care of sisterhood is available to everyone…and may be the key to our shared survival.
Back home
“COVID-19 and the climate crisis are asking me to move towards everything that home offers.”
To be real
“I have far too little tolerance for the performance of high-minded, intellectualized ‘goodness’ lately.”
Discomfort as information
What if discomfort is just a sign? A gauge? A piece of guidance? Information to act upon?