by Liz Scarfe | Jan 26, 2023 | belonging, culture, foundational, oppression/anti-oppression, power
Culture is more or less the way we do things around here (see my article What’s Culture? for a bit more detail) and of course, the way we do things doesn’t develop out of a random nowhere, and it requires constant reinforcement (and evolution). Hello reward and...
by Liz Scarfe | Dec 7, 2022 | foundational, oppression/anti-oppression, power
Whilst the fundamental concept has been articulated in one way or another in academic and social change discourse for at least 100 years, the term intersectionality was first coined by lawyer, civil rights advocate, and philosopher Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, in her...
by Liz Scarfe | Oct 25, 2022 | oppression/anti-oppression, psychology
A lot of my catching up with friends happens by going walking together. Several years ago, on one of these walks, my walking buddy shared with me the story of her very first therapy session, maybe twenty-odd years ago. The therapist asked her, “what do you...
