Little Museums (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} heartgut) wrote,@ 2009-04-23 13:43:00 |
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theory and practice
http://www.iser.com/index.shtml
"special education, learning disabilities resources"
...while many people have similar enough sensory equipment and neurological wiring, exceptions shouldn't mean exclusion
http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.ph
... permanent-culture or permanent-agriculture; practices for living within the bounds of a finite planet
http://www.chicago-botanic.org/download
"gardening for people of all abilities"
... a pamphlet from the chicago botanic garden's enabling garden, designed to maximize accessibility for people with different abilities
http://communities.ic.org/
... the journal of intentional communities, in print since '72
http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/
sort of like bringing consensus decision making to a family level; features unschooling discussion. makes me think of why some of the most egalitarian parents i've known have had backgrounds in special needs work.
http://localfoodsystems.org/blogs/majam
"appalachian staple foods collaborative"
... the blog! these are the folks amanda and i met at a forest-activism hike who are working to sustainably grow staple foods in southern ohio. they also tipped me off about transition towns.
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/
... an active, organic farm that has served as a research site and has been drawing connections between food systems and climate change.
"Our whole food system is now just a transportation system. Our community has been disconnected, the country from the town. The country is really the lifeblood of adjoining villages and cities. It is where our food comes from. It is our natural ecosystem and one that we should be strengthening rather than weakening."
-Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, 9th Congressional District (she also told folks being foreclosed on to squat their homes)
Last night I was talking with Mike about how conscious I was of being female earlier in the day when I was working at the greenhouse that we've been using as a woodshop (there's a long story about the non-profit that owned the land going under & selling off the property to a bank, so until that gets settled we aren't using the space as it was originally intended). The misogyny in certain micro-cultures (e.g. construction sites) is so ingrained that there is no thought put into insulting someone by feminizing them (for instance, a group of three young men were carrying a half-constructed picnic table without clearly communicating with each other and an older volunteer-leader described them as "two chiefs and one Indian", while another corrected him by saying, "Looks more like three squaws to me."), much less undermining the expertise of women participating by taking over their projects and prohibiting access to tools and materials. In my experience, the best way to manage these situations is to be as assertive as possible, but sometimes "possible" is the operative word. Addressing and neutralizing the damages caused by arbitrary authority-- whether it is adults over children or men over women or whatever else culture permisses through unspoken and assumed hierarchies-- is the most consistent challenge I've faced in this job. And I imagine that's going to be part of my work for life.
http://www.iser.com/index.shtml
"special education, learning disabilities resources"
...while many people have similar enough sensory equipment and neurological wiring, exceptions shouldn't mean exclusion
http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.ph
... permanent-culture or permanent-agriculture; practices for living within the bounds of a finite planet
http://www.chicago-botanic.org/download
"gardening for people of all abilities"
... a pamphlet from the chicago botanic garden's enabling garden, designed to maximize accessibility for people with different abilities
http://communities.ic.org/
... the journal of intentional communities, in print since '72
http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/
sort of like bringing consensus decision making to a family level; features unschooling discussion. makes me think of why some of the most egalitarian parents i've known have had backgrounds in special needs work.
http://localfoodsystems.org/blogs/majam
"appalachian staple foods collaborative"
... the blog! these are the folks amanda and i met at a forest-activism hike who are working to sustainably grow staple foods in southern ohio. they also tipped me off about transition towns.
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/
... an active, organic farm that has served as a research site and has been drawing connections between food systems and climate change.
"Our whole food system is now just a transportation system. Our community has been disconnected, the country from the town. The country is really the lifeblood of adjoining villages and cities. It is where our food comes from. It is our natural ecosystem and one that we should be strengthening rather than weakening."
-Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, 9th Congressional District (she also told folks being foreclosed on to squat their homes)
Last night I was talking with Mike about how conscious I was of being female earlier in the day when I was working at the greenhouse that we've been using as a woodshop (there's a long story about the non-profit that owned the land going under & selling off the property to a bank, so until that gets settled we aren't using the space as it was originally intended). The misogyny in certain micro-cultures (e.g. construction sites) is so ingrained that there is no thought put into insulting someone by feminizing them (for instance, a group of three young men were carrying a half-constructed picnic table without clearly communicating with each other and an older volunteer-leader described them as "two chiefs and one Indian", while another corrected him by saying, "Looks more like three squaws to me."), much less undermining the expertise of women participating by taking over their projects and prohibiting access to tools and materials. In my experience, the best way to manage these situations is to be as assertive as possible, but sometimes "possible" is the operative word. Addressing and neutralizing the damages caused by arbitrary authority-- whether it is adults over children or men over women or whatever else culture permisses through unspoken and assumed hierarchies-- is the most consistent challenge I've faced in this job. And I imagine that's going to be part of my work for life.
