We Are The Culture Makers
Tiny acts of doing-it-differently dislodge the web of cooperation that our unjust culture requires to function – and creates something new instead.
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…
OPPORTUNITY: Instead of letting an unjust culture flow through our mouths and our lives, we can interrupt it — and we can make a new one.
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.
The best thing we ever do is lean on each other and lift each other up because we are the culture makers, and together we rise.
This photo makes me smile. Admittedly, talking with my hands is perhaps not the most effective way to communicate on the radio.
Entrepreneur spaces will often tell people with multiple passions and focuses that we are flaky, but I think we are cultivating a rich body of work.
I dislike “meet them where they’re at” marketing advice. It feels like contempt for the audience. Let’s assume our customers and readers are smart and brave
Our challenge is to develop that well of images while avoiding conventional, performative beauty-signalling that props up existing oppressive narratives.