social justice
Why We Don’t Have to Think Alike to Work Together
So often we try to minimize, or better yet, wipe out our differences, or get people to agree with us, so that we can move forward together. But what if our desire to be on the same page is holding us back?
Making Women’s Leadership Work Visible, Starting New Conversations
I’ve decided to join the team at Take The Lead because to me this is a project within the larger, often blurry field of “women’s leadership” that seeks to make visible all of the ways women are already moving forward. The idea being that we are at a unique turning point in history, and that although we can’t always see the movement happening, we know it is happening and we must work with all of those places where we feel new strength and energy.
Roundabout Ways to Support Women Leaders
Question your assumptions about power. As business thinkers have encouraged more “flat”, networked organizations, we’ve begun to change leadership structures. But we must do more than adjust structures; we must question our beliefs about leadership and more specifically, power… how it works and what it looks like. Letting go of strict, top-down hierarchical structures doesn’t do much if we approach our work with the same old attitudes about power.
Grassroots organizing meets participatory leadership
Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Kelly McGowan tell the story of how The Art of Participatory Leadership and Social change gathering (October 2011) came to be and explore the connections between social change work and participatory process. Tuesday offers a new model for social change weaving social justice and participatory process called “co-revelation.” We talk a lot […]
Caroline Knapp on writing and activism
“Steering hope away from false gods, shepherding the focus back toward the heart, learning to see one’s private pain in a larger context, coming to link body with spirit: This, of course, is the essence of revolutionary work, and it always requires the reframing potential of language, the ability of words to fuel insight, rearrange facts, break down old paradigms.” […]
Turning Up the Volume on Women’s Voices
Originally published in Color Magazine, March 2011 Where are the women? In business, technology and media, among other fields, this is the big question we seem to be asking ourselves again and again as a society. It’s the headline of more than a few articles and columns. Despite an appreciation for women’s unique skills and […]
