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My #Resilience Community of Practice group started up again today—a year of engagements & community building determined collectively.
Two things I flagged as wanting to work through was the framing & language of resilience & FEAR.
Warning—loquacious climate ramble.
Two things I flagged as wanting to work through was the framing & language of resilience & FEAR.
Warning—loquacious climate ramble.
Framing & Language
A collective priority was addressing how to support people in shifting the language and framing of “resilience” away from individual targeting to addressing the systemic level #resilience and origins of harm and violence.
A collective priority was addressing how to support people in shifting the language and framing of “resilience” away from individual targeting to addressing the systemic level #resilience and origins of harm and violence.
As we know, “#resilience” framing is often weaponized & used to gaslight the toil of survival (specifically racialized & oppressed communities) amid systems designed / built to systematically undermine wellbeing, life & thriving.
No words can explain the pain and confusion Boulder community feels after the shocking action #Wynnbruce took on Earth Day. I write in this @ColoradoSun OpEd how I'm making sense out of it all given #climategrief and my onoging work with activists. 1/n coloradosun.com/2022/05/13/wyn…
"On Earth Day 2022, Wynn Bruce set himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. For eight years, I have known Wynn as a beautiful friend, Buddhist meditation practitioner, lover of nature, selfless, brave, fun loving and creative man." 2/n
"Wynn.. felt a dire urgency about the climate crisis. We live with ongoing distress about catastrophically insufficient actions those with power have taken so far to mitigate the causes of exploding climate disasters." See this letter by Wynn: 3/n
