May 2013

23 May

Posted at 14:18h in Inspiration by

“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we...

21 May

Posted at 21:11h in Glimpse into Me by

Finding voice in celebration of justice EDFD 554/Dr. Jeremy Price May 2006   Introduction In “the shadow of silent majorities,” then, as teachers learning along with those we try to provoke to learn, we may be able to inspire hitherto unheard voices.  We may be able to empower people to rediscover their own memories and articulate them in the presence of others, whose space they can share.  Such a project demands the capacity to unveil and disclose.  It demands the exercise of imagination, enlivened by works of art, by situations of speaking and making.  Perhaps we can at last devise reflective communities in the interstices...

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