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Community Expression and Understanding
Community Expression and Understanding
Creating community usually centers around a few different areas of the people with in it. You have to make sure that your community, when it comes together, is taking the time to recognize all of its members identities. You should make sure that everyone feels supported and uplifted in their community, but with the same autonomy over themselves as we all hope for in life. There shouldn't be any non-moral themes of identity that exclude the people around you. You should find activities that allow you all to recall what you agree on most and what you desire from the community.
You want to make sure that all of the perspectives (people) you have in one place, are used together to form educated opinions. -This can get tricky- because a lot of the time when we as humans converse about criticism, we are unable to separate it from how we view each other. All of us have made decisions or been in situations where we learned something out of necessity, for our vital (communication/understanding) mistakes. We have to have patience and mercy with one another when forming an understanding of where each of us are. No matter how mature you get, no matter how wise you may seem, we all have our faults with communication.
We are NOT saying that you should welcome violence, extremism, or inappropriate behavior from people who want to be apart of your trusted community. However, we do recognize that a lot of the way people behave is due to the life they are experiencing or have experienced, and for many some kindness from an unlikely source is all they need to realize their misactions. Of course if people are being manipulative, gaslightory, or hurting people (or you) you have every right to call out those actions directly to the person, if it is a safe option.
Are ways in which we have structured our society to cater to a specific kind of format for us to run on; even-though, it may be an unspoken and interpretable format per se.
Are ways in which we have structured our society to cater to a specific kind of format for us to run on; even-though, it may be an unspoken and interpretable format per se.
First we must understand what kind of systems we are looking at?
Patriarchy has been founded on the preconceived notion to sex differences at birth and assumed placement in breeding or procreation for future generations, and the assumed placement of a labor source or provider. While this notion has been getting very old by this time, we have let it up hold several households and leave many spending years in emotional aguish over their true wants and the systems' need to stay alive. If men are home bodies who take care of the young, as their female partner have a larger corporate jobs that provide for the family you are actively breaking this norm. However, don't misguide your sense of praise for breaking away from the norm. The praise goes to those who also teach their children not to rely on a specific sex or gender to provide for emotional needs etc. There is a lot in this world that caters to the male ideology, but in many ways it dis-serves the male population the most by inappropriate expectations and emotional strangulation. This does not negate that the tole the Patriarchy has put on AFAB people and/or women is unattainable by most, and has caused death, abuse, and manipulation in the name of gender superiority. Sexual domination has always been apart of this historical fantasy, but the patriarchy uses this assumed domination to abuse and silence women all the time. Rape and abuse culture is an egregious act and it's important that we take the energy to deal with our biggest predators in the community.
However our systems journey does not lead us just to Patriarchal Systems, but also Racist Systems that further upheld the white male agenda for power and profits. We saw this throughout the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Fugitive Slave Laws, Emancipation Proclamation, and Jim Crow Laws that have only evolved in their ability to access black communities and gerrymander their counties. Racism has many different ways of manifesting itself in the psychology of white individuals. Racism is something every white person faces, because our environment inherently works for us. It makes sure that we are safe; instead of fearing us and therefore endangering us. Racism and Slavery gave white men with power the ability to control and manipulate the ways in which voting and many other forms of freedom were withheld. Black Communities have faced the most extreme of attacks in our nation's history. It's our job as people today to combat our learned racism and other social systems, so that people can be in this place of freedom with the feeling of actually feeling safe, protected, and free to do so as they please (with reason).
What is Precariousness?
What is Precariousness?
Precarious:
“Precarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat.”
Precarity is a good gauge to use when looking at visible and non-visible identities, because we are gauging the level of danger for a given identity based on different situations. While some people may carry identity privileges, it does not take away from their precarious identities, or the impact they may have in someone’s day-to-day life. When discussing identities and power struggles, utilizing the lens of precarity can help us to navigate complex intersectional scenarios.
What is Equity?
What is Equity?
Equity as a concept differentiates from equality in that it is a way for us to view the necessity of not having equal support for each person, but rather finding the way for everyone to have equal access to the support they may need to meet their basic human needs and have access to the spaces and resources necessary for human spiritual health. A goal of equity is to acknowledge how the trades that we make of our energy for a common goal, may not always look equal, but have similar weight to each person and their ability to contribute. Equity is a large piece to understanding the best ways we can create more accessible spaces, as well as essential to addressing various kinds of power imbalances relating to hierarchies of race, class, citizenship, sexuality, assigned gender status, ability, and more.
Self identity cannot be defined in just one way, or defined permanently. The self is always changing, growing, and learning how to be within its environment. Therefore our identities are as fluid in defintion. The descriptor words and language that we use to discuss the different aspects of ourselves, are all defined to help fit us in to the structure of our society and community. This does not mean that having a strong identity in anyway particular way is bad, but that it is merely the language we use to describe ourselves. Since we are all extremely unique people no exact word or definition, can define that identity for everyone the same. We all uniquely identify with our identities. It's important to remember that identities help us fit in to the social structures that already exist, but those structures are often able to hold up the systems of oppression we are always trying to avoid. Sometimes when we heavily identify with an identity that holds up these structures can do us more harm than good. We should always think about our motivations of wanting to be perceived or have a specific identity, and what brings us to that conclusion.
Outside of Systems of Oppression, and the Structures that uphold it, we can see that we may hold many adjective/adverb type of identities, which are more like just words that describe who you are and what you like. Sometimes people will associate their job or work as a form of their identity, which can be true for some people. Majority of people, however, find themselves being defined only as their job, due to the wage and wealth gap in our country (USA). True self-identities are things we choose, not things that are assigned to us without care or consent.
Why is it important that we discuss the relationships we have with other people when it comes to the hygiene of our immune system and body? Well there are many reasons, but to start: we share our microbiome with our closest community members. When we share food, space, bodily fluids, etc. with our community, we are sharing our microbiomes. If you live with other people, you share dominant parts of your microbiome with them. We all share many of the same biometric make up in our microbiomes without directly sharing those microbes; however, the specific types or mutations can vary person-to-person.
When we are sharing our enviroment with others we have to ask ourselves if the environment were in is conducive to good hygiene practices. We are aware that many people don't have readily access to safe hygienic environments, due to the criminalization of homelessness and lack of access for most health conditions. We have people in our community who have to take their health very seriously, and for these individuals, thinking about their community support can be hard without us all having access to microbiome education. It's vitally important that we remember disability, and immunocompromisation is not someone's choice, they are forced to live their life under those regulations, because if they don't they are at a higher risk of death.
There are many good microbes, and as we've learned there is one microbe-cell for every human-cell in our bocies. We know that our personal, communal, and regional microbiomes are a big piece of our health and hygiene puzzle. When we are moving long distances, or changing our environment all together, we are more likely to experience exposure to microbes that could become pathogens for us.
Sharing space with community should be fun and without social pressure to risk your health, thats why having shared-community-values can help people feel better about sharing that space. We know that the more we lack strength in our community values, the more we are likely to be exposed to things we didn't consent to. Having a good sense of your community, through conversation and criticism, can make one feel a lot better about the potential risks of being in that shared space.
Masking in Public to Avoid Transmission:
Masking in Public to Avoid Transmission:
THIS IS ACTIVISM, recommends that people mask for the protection of their community and themselves. We personally use KN-95 Masks whenever we are in common public places, large events, and crowded outside areas; however, masking is beneficial in all environments where other people are present to share water-droplet and airborne pathogens. It's important that we know that people who mask in public, are not sick; often times these individuals are protecting themselves and their community from the further spread of germs. Just because a person is wearing a mask, does not mean that they have a precarious health condition. While that could be the case, it's never our place to ask why someone is wearing a mask. Often times people in community with immuocompromised individuals participate in masking to protect their loved-ones.
When you are around someone who is masking, and you want to make them feel more welcome the best thing for you to do, is to see if you can wear a mask as well and encourage it of other people at the event of in that group. This provides strength in numbers and can allow for greater protection of your community's health.
There is more research being done to finish this page, please be patient with us.
There is more research being done to finish this page, please be patient with us.
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