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Yes your community is resilient and passionate and powerful, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to expect that members will be fine and know how to take care of themselves. Remember to take care of them as well.
In this interview 99Pi’s amazing host Roman Mars interviewed social scientist Eric Klinenberg about his book - Palaces for the People How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization and the Decline of Civic Life. The episode explores some of my favourite things - community, public services, civic engagement and best of all - libraries!
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As for me, I just want to see us thrive. Even under perfect conditions life is hard, but you and I know much of the suffering we endure and see around the world is there by design.
We live in a world that has decided that human suffering and poverty are not only acceptable, but that they are the natural order of things.
It feels like everything is at risk of being torn away and eaten up in the jaws of this insatiable capitalism beast. Anything that can make money must make money, no matter the cost. But the cost is us... it’s humanity.
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For someone who calls herself a visionary, hypes up her big optimist energy, says her work is fueled by imagination - I regularly underestimate the ways that dreaming has become a central part of my praxis as a changemaker and organizer.
Yes your community is resilient and passionate and powerful, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to expect that members will be fine and know how to take care of themselves. Remember to take care of them as well.
In this interview 99Pi’s amazing host Roman Mars interviewed social scientist Eric Klinenberg about his book - Palaces for the People How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization and the Decline of Civic Life. The episode explores some of my favourite things - community, public services, civic engagement and best of all - libraries!
The UN Youth Envoy - Jayathma Wickramanayake, is someone I greatly admire. Just a few years older than me, she’s been such a powerful voice on the global stage making space for youth at the UN, making genuine change regarding how we’re engaged and amplifying our voices on some of the most important issues.
I mean, we’re in a pandemic, I work from home, I definitely have the time for more joy, fulfillment, excitement, hobbies - so what am I filling that time with?
Our newest challenge is as Senior Producers, to guide and support the team and continue to steer it, and for me, that’s opened up a space in my life that I’ve been using to make personal transitions of my own, leaning into the Kristeena-ness, taking it through new doors, down new paths into new intervals of possibility. I don’t know where they all lead yet but I’m enjoying the experience of expansion and the time with me.
As for me, I just want to see us thrive. Even under perfect conditions life is hard, but you and I know much of the suffering we endure and see around the world is there by design.
Learning design isn’t only for Designers. Good design is useful in all sorts of projects and fields and for all sorts of people.
goodies, while we continue to attempt to cope with the dumpster fire that is 2020, please, if you have a spare moment, take some time to look at how perfectionism has his claws in your life and how you can tell him to snatch his hand back before you break it off, with love and to counteract his evil with patience, love and kindness.
I love Sundays. They’re slow, quiet, and comforting in all the right ways. Sundays just make me want to love on myself, like I look in the mirror and see this young woman who just needs more pampering, more love, more soul time and I just want to treat her right and show her what’s good you know?
Before they could vote, our ancestors dreamed of freedom when it was utterly impossible. They found slavery and racism to be abhorrent in every way even when it was normal and they dreamt up ways to resist it. It’s important that we not accept the world as it’s presented to us, accept the systems we’ve inherited but rather dream of how they could work for us and read/talk with each other and do research so we can dream bigger and better.
How I’m parenting myself through what I'm calling the “Covid Exhaustion-Wave Background” of 2020
We live in a world that has decided that human suffering and poverty are not only acceptable, but that they are the natural order of things.
It feels like everything is at risk of being torn away and eaten up in the jaws of this insatiable capitalism beast. Anything that can make money must make money, no matter the cost. But the cost is us... it’s humanity.
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For someone who calls herself a visionary, hypes up her big optimist energy, says her work is fueled by imagination - I regularly underestimate the ways that dreaming has become a central part of my praxis as a changemaker and organizer.