Building reciprocity through listening – What I learned from the ‘Gather’ film
It would be an understatement to say that 2020 was a challenging year. Dealing with a global pandemic is not easy. On top of that, injustices many of us thought were buried and long-gone, bubbled to the surface. Injustices that have only been ignored. The realization that there are deep inequitable practices in our “developed” societies based on policy and tradition came into the limelight. An unearthing of the one-sided part of history that has been proliferated and made to become commonplace and accepted. Thus, I spent most 2020 angry, frustrated, and confused, trying to balance the unrest and reality of our current social structures. I realized there needed to be a shift in our understanding, including my own. The histories we are often taught are skewed and incomplete. They tend to paint one group of people as superior and the other as inferior.
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