![]() ![]() However, we valued thinking and education and independent thought and rationality in my home. I would not have had the language when I was growing up to consider myself a critical thinker, not with the weight I ascribe to “critical thinking” now. Your ability to articulate “ intersectionality” is admirable, growing up would you have considered yourself to be a critical thinker, or was this developed over time? It is important to talk about both sides of that dynamic.Ģ. To take up space, for some people that is a very radical thing.Īt the same time, it would be really radical for some people who have inherited space that they have not earned to cede space to others would also be very political. We grant space based on what a person has inherited or how much money a person has to spend or how much the person conforms to our idea of who should be in charge of the world. We do not allocate space to people based on their gifts or their talents or their humanity. And we make these systems in this unequal way. There are a lot of structures, norms, behaviors, and people who coordinate belief systems that require some people to make themselves smaller to the benefit of other people having space to become larger. ![]() What does it mean to you to be “unapologetically ‘thick’”? ![]()
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