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Power, People and PlanetIntersectionality: The Missing Link For Justice | Naomi Klein, Laura Garcia & Georgia HirstyIn this episode, we reflect on the critical importance of the power of intersectional approaches between different movements so that they might win bigger battles faster. Intersectionality refers to the interconnected nature of social categories such as race, class, and gender. They create overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. Intersectionality is a lens that allows us to view the hidden and invisible connections in our society. While many in civil society and different movements recognize this theoretically, there’s still far too high a propensity towards siloed activism. Our guests:Naomi Klein...2023-01-241h 09
YANA PodcastsYANA Virtual Town Hall: Leveling the Playing Field of OpportunityLeveling the Playing Field of OpportunityOf the many values that drive nonprofits, perhaps none is more important than helping underserved populations gain fair access to resources and opportunity. Join us as three change-makers describe how their organizations are leveling the playing field of opportunity in unique and innovative ways.SPEAKERSGeorgia Faye Hirsty ’22 SOM is co-founder and co-director of Frailty Myths, a nonprofit that is actively reimagining femininity through transformative action-based workshops that provide the hands-on skills for women to fully explore the power and potential of their ph...2021-04-011h 00
Cultivating PlaceGROWING EMPOWERMENT - Frailty Myths, with Erinn Carter & Georgia Faye HirsThis week on CP, we're emboldened to consider our strength and power in the garden and in life generally by Erinn Carter and Georgia Faye Hirsty, two of the co-founders of an organization known as Frailty Myths, based in Oakland, CA.
Their mission is to reimagine femininity and build power by excusing ourselves from the implications, hobbles, and damage wrought by mainstream conceptions of what is naturally feminine or naturally masculine (the dominant ethos of what we know as "patriarchy” and as perpetuated by us all).
At Frailty Myths, they instead model, ask, encourage us to bring our whole heartfelt po...2020-01-2356 minCultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenGROWING EMPOWERMENT - Frailty Myths, with Erinn Carter & Georgia Faye HirsThis week on CP, we're emboldened to consider our strength and power in the garden and in life generally by Erinn Carter and Georgia Faye Hirsty, two of the co-founders of an organization known as Frailty Myths, based in Oakland, CA.
Their mission is to reimagine femininity and build power by excusing ourselves from the implications, hobbles, and damage wrought by mainstream conceptions of what is naturally feminine or naturally masculine (the dominant ethos of what we know as "patriarchy” and as perpetuated by us all).
At Frailty Myths, they instead model, ask, encourage us to bring our whole heartfelt po...2020-01-2356 min
Climate OneFighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to PrisonHow far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - and landed in prison. Georgia Hirsty and other Greenpeace activists suspended themselves from a Portland bridge to protest an oil rig bound for the Arctic. Such extreme activism gets headlines, and sometimes results. But is radical civil disobedience the most effective weapon for change? Or is collaborating with corporations to encourage sustainable practices a better way to make a difference?
Guests:
Tim DeChristopher, Founder, Climate Disobedience Center
Georgia Hirsty, National Warehouse Program Manager, Greenpeace
...2019-04-2050 minClimate OneFighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to PrisonRadical protesters Tim DeChristopher and Georgia Hirsty put the “active” in “activism.” But is civil disobedience the best way to effect real change? Tim DeChristopher, Founder, Climate Disobedience Center Georgia Hirsty, National Warehouse Program Manager, Greenpeace Brendon Steele, Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Future 500 This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on January 19, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2016-12-3059 minClimate OneFighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to PrisonRadical protesters Tim DeChristopher and Georgia Hirsty put the “active” in “activism.” But is civil disobedience the best way to effect real change? Tim DeChristopher, Founder, Climate Disobedience Center Georgia Hirsty, National Warehouse Program Manager, Greenpeace Brendon Steele, Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Future 500 This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on January 19, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2016-04-081h 00Climate OneFighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to PrisonRadical protestersTim DeChristopher and Georgia Hirsty put the “active” in “activism.” But is civil disobedience the best way to effect real change? Tim DeChristopher, Founder, Climate Disobedience Center Georgia Hirsty, National Warehouse Program Manager, Greenpeace Brendon Steele, Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Future 500 This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on January 19, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2016-02-051h 00