"The future of the world depends on women." Kofi Annan, ex-UN Secretary-General
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- General Area/City Where I Live
- Vancouver
- About Me:
- I am a graduate student in the Faculty of Education at UBC. I am currently writing my Master’s thesis, which combines Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy and her related critique of education with psychoanalytic theories of learning and Levinas’s articulation of ethical action toward the Other.
- What Needs of the World Most Resonate with my Call to Leadership
- For me it is a choice between doing something and doing nothing at all.
Every era has had to stare down its own dystopian future and ours is no different. And each time, a new generation of history makers stepped into the void to say, “We believe there is a different way. Dare we say, a better way” and then moved together in testimony to their beliefs. And so continues the call and response between human actions and the world created of such actions.
I am particularly interested in the narratives that we create as we speak and act in this world; those particular and varied feminine narratives as revealed through our own lived lives versus the limiting narratives about what it means to be a woman that are offered us by popular culture. I believe that by attending to one another’s stories and accepting the responsibility to write our own, a new humanity will be born. I view this as a political, spiritual and biological struggle requiring the engagement and commitment of the mind, the body and the soul. And I’m ready.
- What Do You Wish Were Different?
- I wish we had the time just to stop. All of us. Just for a minute. Give our heads a good shake, take a few deep breaths, regroup and then ask ourselves, “What is this? Outside of everything we’ve ever thought this was before, what is it now to us?” And then listen to one another as we try to respond.
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Julie
Lovely to see you join the group!
You may not remember last we met at the Dialogue and deliberation conference in Nov.
We were one of the few couragious who attended the Sing out loud workshop. A daring thing for me!
You mentioned you wish we had time just to stop!
I suppose we don't take that "Pause" moment because we are afraid if we do , we have to face with what we see (our present moment)!
Shiva