Thanks for sharing and for continuing to be about it, Gina!
I’ve been thinking a lot about community recently (as in genuine, essential, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial kind of community) and how brands and influencers are claiming that word to describe their customers and audience 🥴 and the overuse of the word is diluting our understanding of what genuine and radical community is. So what you said about genuine community based work making the commercial media just feel weird really struck a chord!
How you choose to do the work always keeps me inspired and invested. Thank you!
“Some people aren’t doing “people work” with people. They’re doing “people work” on a laptop and with a microphone.”
It’s can be the same in the conservation world too. No amount of media noise replaces the quiet, daily work you can do on the ground with others. Your reflections here are so alive, like you’re meeting yourself again, with more power and presence than before. What a gift you’ve given yourself and others Gina x
Reading this has been a balm! Thank you for sharing your process and the questions in your heart, much of which resonated. I feel I’ve learned a something in the way you’ve articulated the importance of the relationality of this work, the need for genuine, sometimes (often?) messy dialogue and how it’s insidiously dodged in the mainstream
Thanks for sharing and for continuing to be about it, Gina!
I’ve been thinking a lot about community recently (as in genuine, essential, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial kind of community) and how brands and influencers are claiming that word to describe their customers and audience 🥴 and the overuse of the word is diluting our understanding of what genuine and radical community is. So what you said about genuine community based work making the commercial media just feel weird really struck a chord!
How you choose to do the work always keeps me inspired and invested. Thank you!
this was fantastic :) it’s uplifting to hear that, when you experienced commercial success, you thought this deeply about where to go with it ❤️
Yes, yes, yes to all of this…
“Some people aren’t doing “people work” with people. They’re doing “people work” on a laptop and with a microphone.”
It’s can be the same in the conservation world too. No amount of media noise replaces the quiet, daily work you can do on the ground with others. Your reflections here are so alive, like you’re meeting yourself again, with more power and presence than before. What a gift you’ve given yourself and others Gina x
Reading this has been a balm! Thank you for sharing your process and the questions in your heart, much of which resonated. I feel I’ve learned a something in the way you’ve articulated the importance of the relationality of this work, the need for genuine, sometimes (often?) messy dialogue and how it’s insidiously dodged in the mainstream