Oh I’m so glad you shared this Susie how powerful is that. how true is that phrase—minding the gap.
It can be disheartening for sure to see where are at 20 years from then. Ok good days, I like to tell myself that systems freak out when they’re getting close to their turning over, and we’re just living through the freak out.
That Ijeoma piece you just shared is so good, feels almost like required reading. The difference between activation and radicalization. So much in there.
Also can I just say how grateful I am to get to be in this conversation with you? 🥰🥰🥰
Oh, Sara -- this resonates so much with me. I remember -- back in those immediate post-9/11 days when I was in the thick of raising my children and teaching full time, I read somewhere that "we are standing in the gap between the world as it is and the world that we want" and I called it "minding the gap." What's so painful is that here we are 2o-some years later and I'm stil minding that gap!! And the world as I want it to be is even further away it seems. I also just read this essay today by Iljeoma Oluo, and it seems like it's another piece of the puzzle: https://ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/did-this-radicalize-you-really?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=445692&post_id=149080039&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ytnfk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Oh I’m so glad you shared this Susie how powerful is that. how true is that phrase—minding the gap.
It can be disheartening for sure to see where are at 20 years from then. Ok good days, I like to tell myself that systems freak out when they’re getting close to their turning over, and we’re just living through the freak out.
That Ijeoma piece you just shared is so good, feels almost like required reading. The difference between activation and radicalization. So much in there.
Also can I just say how grateful I am to get to be in this conversation with you? 🥰🥰🥰