By Andrew Pulrang — 2021
Disability activism is empowering. Keys to getting started are staying open, sharing the stage, working collaboratively, listening and learning, and being willing to ask for help to make it less scary.
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Simon Sinek’s Life Advice Will Change Your Future.
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A bird was lying on his back in the road with his feet in the air. A horse saw him and asked, “What’re you doing?” The sparrow said, “I’m helping hold back the darkness.” The horse sneered and said, “Yeah, right,” and the sparrow said, “One does what one can.”
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Luvvie Ajayi Jones isn’t afraid to speak her mind or to be the one dissenting voice in a crowd, and neither should you. “Your silence serves no one,” says the writer, activist and self-proclaimed professional troublemaker.
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture.
Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.
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On May 1, 2015, Valarie Kaur delivered a keynote at the Pentagon's second-ever commemoration of the Sikh faith. Kaur spoke on "Seva" - selfless service in the Sikh religion.
Four Trillium Awakening teachers discuss the radical trust that emerges from whole being realization, and how this trust enhances our ability to respond to life with more ease and effectiveness, including our activism.
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