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2019 Voter Service Events - Google Sheets - 0 views

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The wind in my hair: one woman's struggle against the hijab | Global | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • Masih explains that girls in her country are raised to “keep their heads low, to be as unobtrusive as possible, and to be meek”; and she couldn’t be more different. “I’ve got too much hair, too much voice and I’m too much of a woman for them,” she says, and within two minutes of talking to her, I can see exactly what she means. Masih is fun, noisy and opinionated and, worst of all for the people who run her country, unafraid.
  • because her mother gave her some advice about how to deal with the dark. “She said to me, the darkness can only devour you if you let your fear in. So open your eyes as wide as you can, and face the darkness.”
  • domestic coping strategy became her mantra.
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  • From that moment on, says Masih, everything was different. “Looking at photographs of my family before the revolution, you see my mum wearing a skirt and a scarf, and my father has just a small beard. But after Khomeini returned it was forbidden to shave so his beard grew huge and my mother had to be entirely covered up in a dark chador. Everyone looked miserable after the revolution: fresh and happy faces like my mother’s face before were covered up, and sad.”
  • But before the revolution there was social freedom, women were allowed to participate as equals in much of life – they could do sport, they could go to the gym, there were female judges. The people who backed the revolution wanted political freedom, and they ended up not getting that – plus, they lost their social freedom.”
  • To people who tell her that the hijab is just a bit of cloth, and there are much bigger problems to be faced in the Middle East, Masih has this message: “This is about a government that’s controlling a whole society through women. It makes me so sad when people say it’s a small thing, because everything starts from that infringement of our rights.” A whole culture of intolerance, she says, is built on that; and women bear its brunt, from the age of seven.
  • When I was a child my mum would say: ‘If you get thrown out of the room, you always find a window to get back in.’ And now social media is my window. The authorities are watching me, and my campaign, because they know how powerful it is that ordinary women are protesting. We’re like the suffragettes, we’re risking breaking the law for something we absolutely know is right.”
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Brainstorm in Progress: MOOCs and Connectivist Instructional Design - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 04 Jun 13
     
    A blog by Geoff Cain on MOOCS and Connectivist Instructional design from October 27, 2012. Very interesting history of how this teacher of health information management used collaborative technologies to teach the class and help the students work online in a multi-model delivery method. See below for implications on any online courses and how OS it feels. There were weekly guest lecturers as well as presentations by the course facilitators. The real heart of the course was the groups of students who would meet virtually, using the collaborative tools of their own choosing, who would discuss the presentations and readings. These groups were self-organized, leaderless, and informal. Yet, there always seemed to be someone in the group who would carry the discussion back into the course to have questions answered by the facilitators. And the facilitators would sometimes participate in the discussions. This experience was highly interactive. There was interaction with the facilitators, the content and between the students. Interestingly enough, the research shows that interaction is one of the primary measures of success and retention in online classes: the higher the degree and opportunity for interaction, the more successful a course will be. This course completely changed how I think of course design.
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Rebecca Solnit on Rewriting the World's Broken Stories and the Paradigm-Shifting Power ... - 0 views

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  • contributing a most valuable and essential piece of evidence for the diagnosis of the ills of our civilization.” Such naming of wrongs, betrayals, and corruptions unweaves the very fabric of the status quo. It is, Solnit argues, “the first step in the process of liberation” and often leads to shifts in the power system itself. In the age of “alternative facts,” when language is used as a weapon of oppression and manipulation, her words reverberate with the irrepressible, unsilenceable urgency of truth: To name something truly is to lay bare what may be brutal or corrupt — or important or possible — and key to the work of changing the world is changing the story.
  • I think of it as revisionist future — the act of courage and creativity required for changing the terrain of reality by imagining alternative landscapes and new pathways of possibility. “We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice,” Ursula K. Le Guin observed in her poignant reflection on how imaginative storytelling expands the scope of the possible. “We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.”
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They Don't Want to Know: Rebecca Solnit on Brett Kavanaugh and the Denial of Old White ... - 0 views

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  • The desire to know and understand is perhaps the highest and most humane of all our impulses; it is the desire to open up, to grow, to reach out, to exceed one’s limits, to experience the humanity and truth of others. The pursuit of knowledge is the profession we pursue as lawyers, writers, historians, scientists, teachers, as it is that of anyone who seeks self-awareness and an understanding of the people and world around us.
  • I wrote an essay this spring called “Nobody Knows” about how those regarded as nobody are treated as people without voices and rights; what those considered to be somebody who matters do to them they do to nobody. Nobody knows what you did, there are no witnesses, because this black person, this poor person, this child, this woman cannot bear witness; their word does not matter; their testimony has no consequences. Too many elites think that what they did to people who are no one is, categorically, nothing. And thus they are justified in claiming they did nothing and indignant w hen told they did something. I am not saying this is the case with Kavanaugh, but I am saying it
  • Even our laws have enforced the nullity of some of us, not only as lacking rights but lacking the right to witness.
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  • Some of us are purely tribal—our loyalty is to our family, posse, gang, political party, identity group, no matter what
  • Truth and the ability to have our voices count is still something to which we have unequal access; #MeToo and Black Lives Matter are both movements to rectify this.
  • Others among us are ideological: our primary loyalty is to values and truth,
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Florida Domestic Violence Help, Programs and Statistics - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 30 Oct 18
     
    profile of Florida domestic violence programs and services
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Who Tapestri is | Tapestri - 0 views

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    regional agency that helps immigrants recover from DV and human trafficking
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Why Do So Many Online Communities Fail? - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 04 Jun 13
     
    Blog post by Naava Frank, Jewish Philanthropy, May 2, 2013. Stresses that the relationship infrastructure is just as important as the technology structure. Facilitators may act like hosts to introduce people to each other and help them start a conversation on things that matter to them. A recent project she had for the Helen Keller National Foundation resulted in her doing this protocol: We paired people up - intentionally thinking about who might benefit from doing this work together - make sure someone who is technology averse is paired with someone who is technologically comfortable. Maybe pair people who work on the same team? Or maybe pair people across teams? We sent them into the platform with an assignment. While they are in the site and "kick the tires" we helped them imagine what it would be like driving the car. We gave them some guiding questions to think about. Name 3 ways this platform can help you forward your mission. Name 2 technology improvements you would like to see for this platform. Name 1 surprise from this experience. We asked everyone to post these responses in the site so that others can see how their peers respond to the experience. (Thereby giving them another opportunity to get to know others - by reading their responses.)
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About Common Ground Publishing  |  About the Community  |  Ubiquitous Learning - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 04 Jun 13
     
    Explanation of mission of Common Ground Publishing. Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations-of discipline, professional association, institution, and
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For Sexual Assault Survivors, There's Power In Speaking Up. Then What? | HuffPost - 0 views

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  • When the president mocked Ford on Tuesday ― so callously, so gleefully, with all the hallmarks of joy, with his white teeth in his little puckered mouth and the crowd roaring ― it felt like a beast was crouched on my chest, heavy, heavy.
  • When you tell someone you know, there are all the meta-feelings that accompany making any sort of disclosure that has emotional power, a concern that one is being too obvious, too vocal, making people uncomfortable, burdening others with your pain, drawing too much attention. It’s hard to speak your pain and stay demure. I told the entire readership of The Village Voice that I was raped before I told my mother.
  • While he handled it incredibly supportively, I was struck by, well, how much a surprise it was for him that normal ‘good’ people do things like this.”
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  • the crudest skepticism, the baldest, cruelest lies, have emerged to scald us further.
  • The president mocked Christine Blasey Ford, and the crowd chanted “Lock Her Up!” ― a chant so far abstracted from Hillary Clinton that it feels, now, like a warning to any unruly woman, every unruly woman, that anything but meekness will be met with force. A
  • “Every second of the GOP response is every reason I never reported, never told anyone, didn’t let myself think about it for years,”
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 10 Oct 18
     
    article by Talia Lavin, HuffPost, October 4, 2018
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