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? [...]
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On MLK Day, Opening the Hearts of the Privileged
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/
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/
Confessions from Park Avenue: Ignorance, Privilege and Change
This week the Occupy Wall Street protest ventured uptown, to the Upper East Side of Manhattan–where I grew up. I have always been reluctant to admit that for a good portion of my life I called Park Avenue home. I knew what kinds of stereotypes would instantly leap to my interlocuters’ minds upon hearing these [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on October 12, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/confessions-from-park-avenue-ignorance-privilege-and-change/
9/11 beyond the hype: What are YOU going to do about it?
Someone asked me today, What do you remember about 9/11? I remember that at the moment the Twin Towers were hit, I was walking down to the Simon’s Rock College Center from the parking lot, on my way to my morning class—Sophomore Seminar. It was a gorgeous September day, cool and bright. My first indication [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on September 7, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/911-beyond-the-hype-what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it/
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