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[magpie_81]

On a personal/individual level: a goal for a status quo that is of equality...

How can you strive for equality (class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality), thrive (I think “thrive” might need some context.) and yet not sell your soul to the devil? I thought it was by removing myself from capitalism; working in a non-profit. I’ve come

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[midnightblu2002]

i heart that book. and bell hooks. and you. and im so fucking glad you are going to be here next weekend. i hear you, its hard to work things like that out.

you're doing good.

[magpie_81]

I know I'm doing good... but I want to do moooorrrreee!!!

[sayeez]

Hope to see you next week, roomie. As far as your post, I haven't thought to hard on it, but to let you know acedamia isn't just white men anymore. In a few years I along with a growing number of women are changing that and the trueth is most of the men are acepting of and encouraging it. Also if you want to change the world for the future you need to educate people whether that's in a high school or through literature (which personally I think is a bit like preaching to the choir). Just a couple thoughts. Peace.

[magpie_81]

actually one of the things that always gets me frustrated with activist/radical literature is that it always and only suggests literature as an effective means of spreading ideas. I agree that literature is a good means, but it's not the only one. Bell Hooks is one of the only authors I've seen suggest brochures and door-to-door activism as necessary for change. (since so much of the population doesn't read at an advanced level, or simply is not literate) But since I'm crap-tastic at writing this really isn't a good avenue for me.

Education (in a non-university setting) is vitally important for spreading the ideal of equality to the next generation. Its possibly the most effective avenue of society-wide change. Sadly I have no interest in education yet still want to help.

I'm struggling between a rock and a hard place.

[radimatt]

Most nonprofits suck and don't address societal issues. But some don't. Maybe the best repository of said non-sucky organizations can be found at the US Social Forum site - https://www.ussf2007.org/. Too bad it already happened...A good way to assess an organization is to look at its decision-making: who's making the decisions, and how?

Also, it's a movement out there! You're one person and you gotta do your part and all, but you need some radical support to really get shit done. You could be living up to ideal standards of equality-demanding, responsible consuming, privilege-working-on, and so forth, and not get anywhere without a good group of folks to help you grow and move you into action and amplification.

[magpie_81]

I hear you on the "good group of folks to help". I'm still kinda searching for that. I'm part of a great group of housemates who nurture and support each other in an almost familial way. Our house is a totally safe and cozy place; it makes me very happy, and I've gotten a bit stagnant in my bliss. I still need to be looking outside my house to the people who are stirring stuff up and making stuff happen. I'm already starting to make connections; I'm hopeful. :)

Thanks for the link to USSF; I hadn't heard of it before and it is most alluring. I'll have to try to go next year.

[bassactor]

I want to respond - I don't know how... if for no other reason then to complement the people who posted to your lj (who, I bet, are in the same position as you are in what you want to do) who assume that "activism is good - fix the world" is the start of the thought (it's as though it's the axiom from which to build a theory - similar to the logic religious people use to say "Ok - God exists, now what," as though the rest of their thought is based on the premise that God exists.) I - not necessarily in the same position you are in - don't automatically agree with the axiom (at least, without examining it