– Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, 2003 On feminism: Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. – Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, 2003ĭominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. – Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, 1994 On community:

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. – Communion: The Search for Female Love, 2002īut many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself.

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