One of the most interesting aspects to me of Carol Gilligan’s research on childhood psychological development is her finding that as girls and boys mature, they lose touch with the instinctive, joyful, totally honest voice they were born with. To some extent, this is necessary. No one would want to live in a chaotic society [...]
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Out of the mouths of babes….
Tagged Environment, ethics
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 18, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/
Dare to love
Like most people I know, I have just a very narrow sphere of knowledge that I’m willing to let penetrate my consciousness at any given time. There’s so much I know but don’t want to know. So much I choose not to acknowledge. It’s a form of self-preservation, because if I were to allow myself [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 6, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/dare-to-love/
On MLK Day, Opening the Hearts of the Privileged
When I first heard the phrase “privilege is invisible to those who have it,” it seemed like the answer to a question I didn’t even know to ask: How can people who are so nice, who would never hurt a fly, be so oblivious to the ways in which their lifestyles are deeply hurting others? [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 15, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/on-mlk-day-opening-the-hearts-of-the-privileged/
They don’t play nice. Should we?
So manifestoes are all very well, in the visionary department, but things get harder when you get down into the nitty-gritty of making transformative change happen. I thought I might take some time this New Year’s season, 2012, to reflect more deeply on what it would mean to turn my dreams into reality. Let’s start [...]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Empathy, Environment, Human Rights, Politics, Social change
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 3, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/they-dont-play-nice-should-we/
Violence against peaceful protesters–a federal crime?
So far I have not been able to get past the still image of the latest shocking example of police violence inflicted on unresisting young people. I don’t need to watch the students begin to writhe and cry out in pain, I don’t have to hear the gasps of the onlookers or the shouts of [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 21, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/violence-against-peaceful-protesters-a-federal-crime/
Bloomberg the Grinch vs. Occupy: This movement is not going away
The question in the air this morning is obvious: what comes next for the Occupy movement now that the tents and tarps in Liberty Park have been trashed by the NYPD? The New York Times is giving way more coverage to the eviction than it ever did to the occupation, proving once again whose side [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 16, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/bloomberg-the-grinch-vs-occupy-this-movement-is-not-going-away/
A teachable moment at Penn State?
What is most shocking to me about the current scandal at Penn State (sports and sexual abuse of boys, in case you hadn’t heard) is the response of the students to the announcement last night that longtime head football coach Joe Paterno was fired. Do the hundreds of students who poured into the streets to [...]
Posted in Community, Education, Empathy, Health, Human Rights, pedagogy, Politics, Politics of Gender, privilege
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 10, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/a-teachable-moment-at-penn-state/
Sweet stirrings of a new world: fringe politics overturning the barricades
The venerable social critic Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker contrasts the Tea Party with the Occupy movement in this week’s magazine, and finds the Occupy movement lacking in precisely what has made the Tea Party so strong: a willingness to get involved in (and take money from) the established American political parties. “Occupy Wall Street [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 4, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/sweet-stirrings-of-a-new-world-fringe-politics-overturning-the-barricades/
Fighting for Change with Hearts Wide Open
The environmental philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore looks out at the Occupied social landscape and sees “The Big One”–a movement that will bring all the disparate struggles of our society together on common ground, and effect deep, lasting, structural changes. “The lines that connect climate change to jobs to the environment to education to health to [...]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Community, Education, Empathy, Environment, Health, New stories, Parenting, Politics, privilege, Social change
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 3, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/fighting-for-change-with-hearts-wide-open/
Is there an “American Spring” around the corner?
You have to admit my blog is aptly named. Each day brings new evidence that we are living through a speeded-up period of rapid change. Was it only a few short months ago that we were stuck in the August doldrums of Congressional gridlock, in which the Republicans seemed to have a total stranglehold on [...]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Economy, Empathy, Human Rights, New stories, Politics, privilege, Social change
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on October 25, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/is-there-an-american-spring-around-the-corner/
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