Comments on: The impossibility of dialogue http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562 Because we care about stuff Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:56:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: AradhanaDevindra http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-51298 AradhanaDevindra Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:12:29 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-51298 Happy anniversary! Happy anniversary!

]]> By: Sigel Phoenix http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49407 Sigel Phoenix Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:00:23 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49407 Thank you to everyone both for the kind words and for reminding me that, yes, March 2005 was <i>two</i> years ago. :P <b>tekanji</b>: You give great examples of how you suit the discourse of this site to parties with different knowledge levels. That's what I was referring to, and that's one of the things I like so much about your blogging. Thank you to everyone both for the kind words and for reminding me that, yes, March 2005 was two years ago. :P

tekanji: You give great examples of how you suit the discourse of this site to parties with different knowledge levels. That’s what I was referring to, and that’s one of the things I like so much about your blogging.

]]> By: arielladrake http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49386 arielladrake Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:35:26 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49386 Great post, Dora. It's a fascinating sort of overlapping and intersecting landscape of positions that we navigate in this sort of discussion. Happy blog-birthday, tekanji! Great post, Dora. It’s a fascinating sort of overlapping and intersecting landscape of positions that we navigate in this sort of discussion.

Happy blog-birthday, tekanji!

]]> By: Sara http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49354 Sara Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:58:15 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49354 Happy Anniversary :) And thanks for this post. It's given me yet another new something to think about going into the race/ethnicity dialogue I'll be facilitating a week from now. I'm not sure how my co-facilitator and I will achieve this kind of balance, but hopefully it's something we can discuss with our students and together arrive at some kind of conclusion. Happy Anniversary :)

And thanks for this post. It’s given me yet another new something to think about going into the race/ethnicity dialogue I’ll be facilitating a week from now. I’m not sure how my co-facilitator and I will achieve this kind of balance, but hopefully it’s something we can discuss with our students and together arrive at some kind of conclusion.

]]> By: tekanji http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49337 tekanji Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:46:20 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49337 <b>Beste:</b> Yup, it's our 2nd birthday. I had all these grand plans of having a picture of a cake, and getting up a post about the year in review, and all that sort of stuff. And then The IRIS Network happened. And real life got in the way. ._. Beste: Yup, it’s our 2nd birthday. I had all these grand plans of having a picture of a cake, and getting up a post about the year in review, and all that sort of stuff. And then The IRIS Network happened. And real life got in the way. ._.

]]> By: Beste http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49216 Beste Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:07:35 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49216 Tekanji, Happy Blog Birthday:) But is it only one year?!? Because I swear I've been lurking at this blog for about two years. Tekanji,

Happy Blog Birthday:)

But is it only one year?!? Because I swear I’ve been lurking at this blog for about two years.

]]> By: SunlessNick http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49177 SunlessNick Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:46:18 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49177 Fascinating. No, I don't have a good comment to make, I'm just being awed and fannish. :) Fascinating. No, I don’t have a good comment to make, I’m just being awed and fannish. :)

]]> By: Sage http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49159 Sage Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:25:33 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49159 Happy anniversary!! I like the reminder that the oppressed and the oppressor are not mutually exclusive. Happy anniversary!! I like the reminder that the oppressed and the oppressor are not mutually exclusive.

]]> By: tekanji http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49133 tekanji Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:16:04 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49133 PS. This post rocks. Like, seriously. Thank you for posting it, as I had never quite thought about it that way. It's a strange little dance we try to do here, eh? Both trying to engage with those who have little knowledge of oppression work while not compromising our core of being a safe-space for anti-oppression veterans to deepen their knowledge. I know one of the ways I try to balance it is to gear certain posts towards certain audiences. My privilege posts, for instance, are mostly geared towards people who are new-ish to anti-oppression, but I try to do so in a way that can help veterans crystalize their understanding of the ins and outs of the issue and therefore hopefully help them to better explain it to the newbs in their lives. Other posts are completely veteran-oriented, and indeed I engage in a fair bit of criticism towards anti-oppression activists who put "their" oppression[s] first. I think seeing intersections and building bridges is what I feel is the most important work for me to do, whether it be between anti-oppression newbs and vets or between veterans who have different sets of oppression-focuses. PS. This post rocks. Like, seriously. Thank you for posting it, as I had never quite thought about it that way.

It’s a strange little dance we try to do here, eh? Both trying to engage with those who have little knowledge of oppression work while not compromising our core of being a safe-space for anti-oppression veterans to deepen their knowledge.

I know one of the ways I try to balance it is to gear certain posts towards certain audiences. My privilege posts, for instance, are mostly geared towards people who are new-ish to anti-oppression, but I try to do so in a way that can help veterans crystalize their understanding of the ins and outs of the issue and therefore hopefully help them to better explain it to the newbs in their lives. Other posts are completely veteran-oriented, and indeed I engage in a fair bit of criticism towards anti-oppression activists who put “their” oppression[s] first.

I think seeing intersections and building bridges is what I feel is the most important work for me to do, whether it be between anti-oppression newbs and vets or between veterans who have different sets of oppression-focuses.

]]> By: tekanji http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49125 tekanji Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:50:02 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-03-23_562#comment-49125 OH NOES. With all the excitement, I totally didn't realize that today is my blog birthday. Crappity crap. Oh well, nothing to do about it now! Thanks for contributing even though I spaced on the day and forgot to :) OH NOES.

With all the excitement, I totally didn’t realize that today is my blog birthday. Crappity crap. Oh well, nothing to do about it now! Thanks for contributing even though I spaced on the day and forgot to :)

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