We Are The Culture Makers
Getting free and healing is never one-and-done. Especially when the source of injury in an oppressive culture that wants you to disappear — remains.
Culture change needs many things, we don’t need to be frustrated with someone for not doing the thing we think is important. WE can do that one thing.
We internalize messages about individual defects but when we zoom out and look at the bigger picture of social structures, we see things differently.
How privilege gets displayed AND LEVERAGED in our social media feeds — in pictures of our hair, kids, counter-tops, vacations, dinners and everyday life.
We feel shame if there is a social expectation that we feel we’re not meeting, and that’s why I think shame is a wildly helpful at understanding oppression.
I get asked a lot who I follow. Here’s a quick (and not exhaustive) list of culture makers who are currently influencing and DELIGHTING me.
Let’s change the norms and the culture around us. That, across time, will change many of the people who were otherwise resistant.
Using your resources and reputation to lift people starting out is a culture making tool. When we use culture-making business practices, everyone can flourish.
We can deliberately leverage our culture-making power to become what we haven’t been: the decision-makers and stewards of a better future.
Images are an essential business resource and they have culture-making power. For a long time, I knew that but I didn’t know how to herd that set of kittens. So I avoided images altogether. I knew what I didn’t want to do — perpetuate the mandatory pretty that’s a form of internalized misogyny AND perpetuate…