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Mia Birdsong: The Longing to Be Known

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The Dominant Model for Expertise and Leadership Has Not Been Particularly for the Planet

The dominant model for expertises constructed around whiteness and maleness has not been particularly good for the planet or its inhabitants. The knowledge and wisdom were missing from people who cannot fit into that model, she says. And when i thought about m this book, and i see practising family and friendship and community in the most inclusive, nurturing, abundant, loving carrying ways, it was largely black women, poor people, queer people, people disabilities, sex workers, unhoused people. That is where i saw it happening. Those are the people i need to go talk to. It just feels like a kind of logic to me that if you want to understand an issue or a problem, that

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