Tag: Social Change

• Socialization and Racial Justice

  Talking about racial justice cannot happen without taking account of whiteness and white privilege. Naming whiteness, describing how it operates in people’s lives, and examining how its benefits shape perceptions of the world is difficult work. It needs to start with what Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz calls “archaeology of the self” – a deep analysis of personal…

  Helen Aydarova

  September 15, 2020

  Activism, Justice, Outreach

  Racial Justice, Social Change, Social Justice, Socialization

• Lessons from the Pandemic

  

  I did not know that wild violets grow in Alabama fields. Turns out they do, right in my neighborhood. I did not know that in the back of my yard grows a dogwood tree with tender blossoms, flowers that serve as a symbol of rebirth and revival. Granted I have not been living in this…

  Helen Aydarova

  May 6, 2020

  Outreach, Pandemic, Political Theater, Spectator

  empire, Political Theater, Social Change, Spectator