Comments on: Is This Your Work to Do? https://lisanotes.com/is-this-your-work-to-do/ on Life and Love Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:22:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Lauren Sparks https://lisanotes.com/is-this-your-work-to-do/#comment-330692 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:22:30 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=32243#comment-330692 Great post as always, friend.

]]> By: David https://lisanotes.com/is-this-your-work-to-do/#comment-330684 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:29:57 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=32243#comment-330684 Very true. If the US could wean itself off White Saviour Syndrome at the international level, the rest of the world would be very happy 😀 Kipling used to call it the White Man’s Burden — civilising the savages and saving them from themselves.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://lisanotes.com/is-this-your-work-to-do/#comment-330682 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:20:43 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=32243#comment-330682 your blog today stretches and challenges me. lots of consider and think about. We just had a discussion this weekend and I noted to a friend that we see so much history through our white eyes. She said she never thought of that way before. Sometimes I feel like I am not doing enough but after this weekend, I think it is also the one to one interactions that can make a difference too. Good thoughts, Lisa.

]]> By: Liz Dexter https://lisanotes.com/is-this-your-work-to-do/#comment-330681 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:55:31 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=32243#comment-330681 I love that illustration, very useful, the book looks great, too.

As I don’t have a workplace and am not part of a religious or other cultural organisation, I felt a bit defeated for a while, what can I do? But something someone in that position can do is work in the spaces they have, as it says there, and share and amplify GMP people’s voices on social media, share about books on their review blogs and call in examples of racism they spot. It’s hard not to centre oneself but possible to (for example) rewrite a paragraph to say “someone can do is … ” rather than, “I do”.

Thank you for sharing this.

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