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\"Walking<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> The talk is available as a podcast on the Out There radio show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I gave a free talk at the Forbes Library<\/a>\u00a0 on Saturday, February 6 at 1 pm in the community room.\u00a0 I spoke about sharing and learning the skills of cooperation, reforming the culture of busyness and creating non-traditional family.<\/p>\n

I’ve been living cooperatively in a cooperatively-owned house for the past 10 years, and gotten tremendous benefit from that, both economically and socially.\u00a0 It’s also been a challenge to learn how to get along with each other.\u00a0 Bringing up the difficulties before they build to a place of resentment, openly talking about feelings and hashing out the details are skills that I’ve learned and am still working on.<\/p>\n

I’ve been spending time every week for the past three years with my adopted niece who is now 5 years old.\u00a0 Together we’ve created videos<\/a>, gone biking, hiking and on public transit adventures, and this past summer we’ve been building a house on a bike trailer to travel to Antarctica with.\u00a0 It’s been about following her lead, and finding the places where I have interest too.\u00a0 I feel very much adopted in her family and all of us support each other – having dinner together, saving thousands of dollars in child care costs, and filling my need for connection with children.<\/p>\n

And I’ll talk about making space in my life, through sharing and cutting expenses, and through meeting my needs in multiple ways at once.\u00a0 Some are: biking for transportation and exercise, cutting wood by hand with a two-person saw and talking the whole time, taking the time to walk places to help me think and to see so much more than I would see traveling faster.<\/p>\n

I’ve taken a lot of inspiration from people of color and raised poor and working class people, locally and internationally, who are cooperating and conserving and living in ways that many white middle-class people have lost touch with.\u00a0 I’ll be speaking about my experience, understanding that my situation is unique and that I have had a lot of privilege to have the space to figure out new solutions, and these solutions won’t work for everyone.\u00a0 Oppression is very real and puts us in a bind unequally.\u00a0\u00a0 Making space in my life has given me the time to work on fighting to end systemic oppression without burning out.<\/p>\n

Check out the recording of the talk<\/a>, and also a shorter radio interview to promote the talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: The talk is available as a podcast on the Out There radio show. I gave a free talk at the Forbes Library\u00a0 on Saturday, February 6 at 1 pm in the community room.\u00a0 I spoke about sharing and learning the skills of cooperation, reforming the culture of busyness and creating non-traditional family. I’ve been … Continue reading Sharing, busyness and non-traditional family<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,30,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooperatives","category-outdoors","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}