tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733547565614327236.post4265127003857937385..comments2023-10-16T06:40:43.382-07:00Comments on CHOP-TENSILS: On Real DiversityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733547565614327236.post-10006423439523049652008-09-24T00:03:00.000-07:002008-09-24T00:03:00.000-07:00I should have left where I'm working a year ago. ...I should have left where I'm working a year ago. I'm doing admin stuff, which makes me crazy, and doesn't use half of my brains, etc. Some days I am so bummed by my whole work experience.<BR/><BR/>But I can't leave. Because my work place DOES have true diversity - at least a little of it. It's not just the labels that the people here carry, although there are enough of those. It's the respect they have for other's opinions and worlds. Even the white people are diverse (am I allowed to say that?). No one is ever treated as though they don't have a part in all the conversations that go on in this place - conversations about sexism, racism, privelage, culture, I could go on...<BR/><BR/>It's addictive. It's instructive. It makes up, most days, for the hard and boring and soul-sucking parts of my job. And I can't leave, because I don't know where else, or how else, to get it.<BR/><BR/>If you find out, let me know...Kaviarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08409825601485451978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733547565614327236.post-51587705101155386922008-08-16T19:55:00.000-07:002008-08-16T19:55:00.000-07:00i second that- well stated. i try to imagine how t...i second that- well stated. <BR/><BR/>i try to imagine how to bring that home, and since you aren't bringing a hundred people with you it will not look at all the same, and back home how do you create that reason for such interdependence, group work, common ground, away from so many of the daily distracters of our lives.<BR/><BR/>i am serious about the 13th- i will try to do my part to get folks together. It is important to keep the connections and grow them wider and find ways to facilitate that togetherness across divides in the the "real" world.Ms. Sishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17721744919087068353noreply@blogger.com