…and what is the content strategist’s role in creating social justice?
Green America promotes social and environmental justice through economic action.
They it by promoting structural change to our economic system through individual, community, and societal action.
Green America promotes social and environmental justice through economic action.
We do it by promoting structural change to our economic system through individual, community, and societal action.
The language of sustainability—as commonly practiced—is in the language of affluence.
Low income people, communities of color…own smartphones at a greater rate than the population in general but they lack a banking relationship.
Bill Bynum, CEO of Hope Credit Union
This is about as blatant a violation of the federal Fair Housing Act as one can find.
John Relman, civil rights lawyer
Content strategy and design are inseparable from social justice.
Think of this as building a box for putting together your own inclusivity toolkit.
Green America promotes social and environmental justice through economic action.
aka “strategic assessment lite”
Reading a report is not enough, turn it into embodied and experiential knowledge.
Are marginalized voices empowered to make change in your organization?
In trying to be reassuring, it became patronizing instead.
Inquisitive ignorance allows for fresh perspective.
“I hear you” is not enough if nothing comes of it.
Design is no longer about designing the thing, you design the conditions for the thing to emerge–the conversation.
Indy Johar—Democratizing Cities
Inclusion has a price. And it is not small.
“Everyone genuinely seems to care. Collectively, not much changes.”
Paul Delaney
Diversity numbers and and quotas are not enough.
Several veteran reporters refused to assist us and act as teachers and mentors to young minority hires and trainees.
Paul Delaney
Content strategy is about creating spaces to communicate.
Content strategy is about creating spaces to communicate listen.
They knew they were overfilled the moment the last seat checked in.
United overfills flights as a standard business practice.
Efficiency demands having processes in place to deal with common problems.
This is the Milgram Experiment as customer service model
This is an anti-pattern for inclusive content strategy.
Social change will not come to us like an avalanche down the mountain. Social change will come to us through seeds in well prepared soil—and it is we, like the earthworms, who prepare the soil.…
…We realize there are no guarantees as to what will come up. Yet we do know that without the seeds and the prepared soil nothing will grow at all.
Ursula Franklin—The Real World of Technology
ancient Mimbari prayer
We can’t change the whole system overnight. But we need to know what we would put in its place…
…and we can take advantage of the present crisis to begin working to create new models with the teachers, principals, and parents all over the city who have given themselves permission to think differently from the powers-that-be.
Grace Lee-Boggs
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