Archive | November, 2012

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Should I Pray For My Abuser? Reconciling Feminism and Forgiveness

By on November 30, 2012 in Action + Activism, Feminawesome, Growth & Transformation
Paolo Freire writes, “In order for [the struggle for humanization] to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.”
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Dear Me: A Thank You Note To My Younger Self

By on November 26, 2012 in (He)artful Living, Growth & Transformation
I need you to know it’s okay to cry. Let it go, girl. Sob all over the world’s blueprints for you—they’re worthless, anyway. You don’t need other peoples’ plans. Let pain be your architect. The design for where I stand today is written in our deepest despair, forged on what you see as failure and I know now as fortitude. Don’t punish ourself for feeling, for fearing, for fretting: it is in these days of darkness that we will learn how to light our own fire. This skill will serve us for the rest of our days together and soon, you will see, we will teach others to do the same.
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I Talked To Raquel!

By on November 16, 2012 in (He)artful Living, Living in Latin America

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been in Germany on workcation for the last four months. Next month, I’m back to home sweet adopted home Chiapas and I have to say, I’m pretty pumped. My time in Germany has felt like one, long, neverending workday. Sure, I’m here with my San Cris sweetheart. [...]

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The Effeminated Feminist

By on November 16, 2012 in (He)artful Living, Action + Activism, Feminawesome
Popular discussion on women’s roles in the world and the workplace has long examined the question of whether equality might effectively imperil a man’s masculinity. We call it emasculation: the idea that one can be less of a man when he performs—or fails to perform—certain activities. I’d call it patriarchy wrapped in a bright blue “It’s a boy!” bow. As a feminist, what some call the “emasculation of the modern man,” I call a social shift in which we all must necessarily adapt to living in a culture where men and women are not categorically defined as either muscles or mothers. Yet, until I was staring down a plate of my boyfriend’s steaming empaneled, I never fully understood how much patriarchal punch I’d sampled myself.
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In Memory of Nick Albers

By on November 14, 2012 in RKA News

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Interview With Faith Odhiambo

By on November 14, 2012 in (He)artful Living, Action + Activism
When you’re doing what you really love and what makes your heart sing with joy and aliveness, you never ever get tired or bored. Keep shining and keep going because you are here for a greater reason! SHINE ON, no matter what, regardless of circumstances, and don’t settle for second best! Believe in yourself, your dream, your unique gifts and talents and let The Universe take care of the rest!
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Why I Never Play Hard To Get

By on November 9, 2012 in Action + Activism, Feminawesome
When we send the message that resistance is a form of flirtation—a strategic move in the game of love—we romanticize the imposition of one human being’s will on another. The building block of violence. By looking at love and sex as a game, a chase, a fight, we give violence our social permission, cultivate a rape culture, and throw consent out with the bathwater. If, as Rhiannon says “I don’t know means No. I’m drunk means No. Maybe means No. I don’t seem into it means No,” then that should apply to every aspect of the dating experience. Hard To Get and No Means No don’t—can’t—exist together. One lives in a world of conquest and the other of communication. And if you say No when you mean Yes or infer Yes from another person’s No, I’d say you’re not really communicating.
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