Community
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Teenagers in our
community
will often go to an adult that is not their parent to ask for advice.
The "new better off," as I've come to call it, is less about investing in the perfect family and more about investing in the imperfect village, whether that's relatives living under one roof, a cohousing
community
like mine, or just a bunch of neighbors who pledge to really know and look out for one another.
And check the box for
community
service.
Happy and successful people went to state school, went to a small college no one has heard of, went to
community
college, went to a college over here and flunked out.
Like many urban schools with high poverty rates, we face numerous challenges, like finding teachers who can empathize with the complexities of a disadvantaged community, lack of funding for technology, low parental involvement and neighborhood gangs that recruit children as early as fourth grade.
And the impossibilities that had been imposed upon them by a disadvantaged
community
were replaced by hope and purpose.
But when politics is about us and our neighbors and other people in our
community
coming together to create experiences of collective voice and imagination, then we begin to remember that this stuff matters.
The addiction that plagued my
community
also plagued my family, and even, sadly, my own mom.
But when I look back at my life and my community, something else was going on, something else mattered.
So for starters, there was a very real sense of hopelessness in the
community
that I grew up in.
Even if you don't give in to that hopelessness, even if you think, let's say, that your choices matter and you want to make the good choices, you want to do better for yourself and for your family, it's sometimes hard to even know what those choices are when you grow up in a
community
like I did.
I learned from my
community
how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well.
There's something else that's really important that's going on that our
community
doesn't like to talk about, but it's very real.
She recognized the message that my
community
had for me, that my choices didn't matter, that the deck was stacked against me.
These are things my
community
didn't teach me.
Dance is a language, and social dance is an expression that emerges from a
community.
Started by a tight-knit Black
community
near Charleston, South Carolina, the Charleston permeated dance halls where young women suddenly had the freedom to kick their heels and move their legs.
Now, social dance is about
community
and connection; if you knew the steps, it meant you belonged to a group.
And I run a
community
lab.
The attacks of September 11 sent shock waves through my
community.
She's a single mother, a
community
advocate.
Her voice on the Yakima City Council is advocating on behalf of the Latino
community
and of all Yakima residents.
I wrote a letter to my assaulter, humanizing him as "you," to identify him as part of the very
community
that he had so violently abused that night.
And all the people who form these relations to me make up my
community.
But, determined not to let this one incident make me lose faith in the solidarity in my
community
or humanity as a whole, I recalled the 7/7 terrorist bombings in July 2005 on London transport, and how the mayor of London at the time, and indeed my own parents, had insisted that we all get back on the tubes the next day, so we wouldn't be defined or changed by those that had made us feel unsafe.
My
community
will not feel we are unsafe walking home after dark.
We will continue to come together, like an army, when any member of our
community
is threatened.
And just like we got back on our tubes, we can't let our platforms for interconnectivity and
community
be the places that we settle for defeat.
For example, we've begun to partner with churches and to think about nurses that are church members, that come from that trusted community, as patient advocates and health coaches to people like Jane.
I am part of an international
community
of people who choose to, rather than passively accepting that our bodies are and probably always will be big, we actively choose to flourish in these bodies as they are today.
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