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In the first of twin podcast episodes called ANCESTORS, Tim and Tuesday interprets their current action and perspective through the lens of their lineage. ⁣
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"The power to change is in my house," says Tim in today’s part one. "Something else also starts here, which is what so much of our work and friendship is—the ability to be in whatever happens next and knowing what has come before."⁣
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ANCESTORS I: EXAMINING YESTERDAY’S ACTIONS TO UNDERSTAND TODAY’S REALITY⁣
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In episode twelve of FIND THE OUTSIDE: THE PODCAST, Tim and Tuesday talk about how we honour and interpret our ancestors’ actions, roles, and impacts — think reverberations of colonialism and class — to grasp the underpinnings of our current world.⁣
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Listen and share at NEWS (link in bio!), and watch for ANCESTORS II, Tuesday's story, in two weeks!⁣
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#findtheoutside #podcasting #FTOpodcast #systemschange #equitableworld #freshair #thereisalwaysaway⁣

From @thefreeblackwomenslibrary: ⁣
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“Racism was always a con game that sucked all the strength of the victim. It’s the red flag that is danced before the head of a bull. It’s purpose is only to distract. To keep the bull’s mind away from his power and his energy. Keep it focused on anything but his own business. It’s hoped for consequence is to define Black people as reaction to white presence…⁣
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It’s important to know who the real enemy is and to know the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing YOUR WORK. It keeps you explaining over and over your reason for being.⁣
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It may very well be left to artists to grapple with this fact (the distraction). For art focuses on the single grain of rice, the tree-shaped scar and the names of people shipped not only the number. And to the artist one can only say: not to be confused. You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever. You must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and the struggle for power. And I urge you to be careful for there is a deadly prison. A prison that is erected when one spends one’s life fighting phantoms, concentrating on myths and explaining over and over to the conqueror your language, your lifestyle, your history, your habits. And you don’t have to do it anymore. You can go ahead and talk straight to me.”⁣
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—Toni Morrison ⁣
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#tonimorrison #freeblackwoman #freeblackwomenslibrary

Shared from our friend @gibranx. 💛

For the past two or three thousand years, the bards of Northern Europe have used oratory to galvanize and awaken. It cuts through all the surface stuff and jolts the creative part of our brains.⁣⁣
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But during the age of industrialization, humanity decided that in order to be authoritative, we must banish humour, storytelling, poetry, and music as frivolity. Convening people became a performance of rigid, structured seriousness, and all that used to be central to community—to coming together across differences—was kicked out.⁣⁣
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Fast-forward a few generations, and we’re finally conceding that we’ve had almost no luck solving our problems mechanistically. Being rigid and structured and serious disinvites creativity and makes us susceptible to oppression and control.⁣⁣
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Since our work at The Outside is a counter to oppression and control, Both Tuesday and I have always felt instinctually that the art, poetry, and song has to come back in. So we bring it.⁣⁣
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Human beings have always sung, painted, and written about the most difficult moments in our growth as individuals and nations. We rally in song and we protest with canvas. There’s good reason why the pen is mightier than the sword!⁣⁣
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—Tim⁣⁣
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Read Tim’s full post ‘Stand up, diggers all’ at NEWS in the link in bio!⁣⁣
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#facilitation #systemschange #artofhosting #equitableworld #findtheoutside #slampoetry

From our own @tuesrh on her podcast interview with change-fellow @gibranx:⁣
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Recently I was interviewed by my friend and colleague, @gibranx on his Evolutionary Leadership podcast. I was super nervous, but we ended up having a really great conversation!⁣
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We talked about lessons I learned from my mother, the question I was born to answer, the facilitation work we both do now, being in our bodies, working with trauma in ways that move us forward, and Midwestern humility.⁣
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It was a great -and far ranging - conversation. If you want to know more about me and my work (some really obscure details in here) or if you don't know about @gibranx and his amazing work, this is a great way to get acquainted. (Find it here: https://www.gibranrivera.com/the-evolutionary-leadership-podcast/2019/2/3/brave-spaces ). Or check out the link in the bio!⁣
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#evolutionaryleadership #dopecolleagues #bravespace

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