Visibility
On my website, the first thing you’ll see is the statement: “We are The Culture Makers”. I say this because it’s true. We have the power to create change and to create a just culture. In our interactions with each other, with friends and family, with power and authorities, online, and professionally, in our businesses…
In order to get access to rights and resources, every woman in our culture has to present herself as saleable, consumable object: we must brand ourselves.
In conventional online marketing, we’re taught to “manufacture” authority with a makeover story. Why? So that people will obey our authority and buy.
Our challenge is to develop that well of images while avoiding conventional, performative beauty-signalling that props up existing oppressive narratives.
What if social media isn’t a time suck, after all? What if, rather than distracting you from your work, creating short social media posts can be a deliberate refinement practice that helps further develop and concisely articulate your ideas?
Perfectionism a form of internalized violence and it keeps us small. Press go before your post or copy is perfect because it will never be perfect.
We must distinguish between trashing and critique, and we must steward this in the communities we participate in and the communities we lead.
Here’s a non-exploitative, successful, feminist model for online summits (while staying in alignment with your social justice principles!)
Women with other dominant identities – white, cis, straight, able-bodied, thin – can leverage their privilege, power, and platforms to make new norms.
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