Doing something different from other people is not a judgment of their choices
"Doing something different from other people is not a judgment of their choices. Just as my being married is no judgment on unmarried couples, the fact that there are multiple organizations and individuals trying to attack the gender parity issue through different means, lenses, frames and efforts does not mean that they are competing with one another.
This is because each effort is going to have its own versions of (a) an understanding of what the problem is, (b) a target audience and (c) a theory of change. Just because one organization’s theory of change is different from another’s does not mean they are competing. For example, a structural critique of racism does not invalidate an intersectional one, or vice versa. "
Issac Butler has written a wonderful post on The Kilroy's and the issue of diverity in the theatre over on his Parabasis Blog. The above quote caught my attention and not necessarily in context to what Issac was originally talking about.
When a dilemma is explored from different agles, it does not atuomatically make others that are working on the smae dilemma from other angles competitors.
Let me take for example the one over-riding dilemma I am working over... how the theatre can genuinely serve artists in contemporary culture.
Because I have come up with a few thoughts by asking original questions, I should not be judged on my progress and in turn, I should not judge others that are working on roughly the same thing, but coming at it with their own set of concerns. We each have our own...
a.) versions of what the actual dilemma is,
b.) are speaking to our own idiosyncratic followers and
c.) have a different approach to solutions.
The rest of Butler's post is fascinating as well. I keyed into this part simply because it sent me off on a tangant. Find it... HERE.