My conflicted relationship to “expertise”
Can we responsibly honor others by authentically centering ourselves and our experiences?
Tag: social change
If ever there was a time…
People in the Global North are being re-awakened to their rebel selves. Now can we apply this in the global development sector?
The Practice of Global Solidarity
What’s the difference between approaches to global development versus global solidarity?
“It feels like history”
A people’s movement is rising in Zimbabwe. Is aid and philanthropy paying attention?
Moving along on the do-gooder journey
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?
Social inclusion through the arts: An alternative to international development?
An interview with Bonnie Castañeda de Garcia of Honduras on the transformative role of arts & culture in violent environments.
The secret to communicating grassroots social change – anyone have it?
(Or, introducing myself as the newest member of IDEX’s team!)
For the disruptors
Here’s to the ones who ask “why” openly in meetings because they just can’t tolerate the façade of “doing good.”
Excuse a little shameless self-promotion
3 places where my voice in #globaldev discussions have appeared lately
“Create” nothing: A new social good mantra
On one of the social good industry’s most killer assumptions: That in the developing world, nothing exists, i.e. that there’s a blank slate upon which our interventions can be built.
Poetic Pause from Johannesburg: Poems by Simric Yarrow
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing three poems by Simric Yarrow