"You love California," I said. You love your friends and it might be hard to find the same level of connection you've built over the last few years, I didn't say.
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I’m wondering what might come out of conversations about how our schools can promote non-hierarchical peer relations.
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After “living as a white, Midwestern woman for fifty years and ten months”, Carl transitioned in 2017, eight months before the #MeToo movement unfurled, a time when “white male supremacists occupy the White House” and the many horrors of modern masculinity were finally starting to be examined in the light of day.
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This poem was included in a piece created by a theatre teacher in the Bronx named Sentell Harper—a performance that remains one of the most powerful reflections on Black boyhood that I have ever seen.
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I think it’s a missed opportunity to skirt around the sexual assault case when talking about Kobe with adolescent boys, because it creates a space to challenge the Trump-era notion of a ‘witch hunt’ against men, and it allows boys to reflect on making mistakes and making amends.
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So you want to start organizing a group in your community? Want to gather people around social change? Here are some considerations for you to think about right at the start from our experience organizing NGM Circle groups across Canada.
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At this stage, you’re now starting to take action researching and discovering what your group will do and what you’d like to impact. If you’re not sure what to do next, here are some suggestions.
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At this point, it’ll be helpful to pause and reflect on your own motivations and fears before going ahead. In the last stage, you uncovered new ideas, worldviews, and relationships you may not have been exposed to before. These experiences might have given you some fresh insight into your own motivations. Take some time to ask yourself these questions given what you know now.
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You’ve done the research, you’ve challenged your own assumptions and beliefs, you’ve made new connections; it’s time to process what you’ve gone through so far and put it into words.
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Many well intended projects die out before ever really becoming anything. Plans, ideas, and words stay imaginary until we take action. Groups often find themselves paralyzed after the initial excitement of starting something new wears off. You may catch yourself or others feeling stuck, finding new things to get excited about, or wanting to back away instead of following through with the plan. The goal of this checkpoint is to choose to commit or quit.
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You’ve made it to the Ideating & Generating stage, congrats! This stage is all about bringing your team together to get everything set up for your community engagement.
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Racism isn’t history. Research shows that systemic racism is affecting Black youth in a variety of ways. So what’s on my mind right now is the lens of hypervulnerability.
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