My positionality
I often begin training on anti-discriminatory practice by citing the multiple privileged positions I occupy within ‘the matrix of oppression’.[1] I typically name that I’m white, heterosexual, male, financially secure, and lucky to have been born with cognitive and physical abilities that support me in navigating an ableist society. Read More
Beloved one
what is it that you are holding onto? Read More
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In "Views of the Apocalypse" (Orion, Winter 2019), Lisa Wells, author of the biographical work Believers, reports paying attention to her repeated experience of falling down various stairways. She finds herself thinking about Freud’s notion of parapraxis, where something internal emerges through a crack into the everyday but in an alien form, subject to immediate denial. Read More |
Three News Items and Liberal Western Complicity
It is Saturday the 17th February and in my newspaper I am reading that the first weeks of 2024 have shattered global temperature records, reaching an average 2C° of warming above pre-industrial levels. The Paris commitment to limit increases to 1.5C° already seems like a distant memory. But there are two other news items, equally disturbing.
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