Can we talk about allyship?
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Respectfully… can we talk about allyship?
Powered by Beetroot. The Root Podcast goes live in the room.
Respectfully… can we talk about allyship?
Powered by Beetroot Consulting, with the live launch of this month's episode of The Root Podcast, recorded with Christopher Owen.
Allyship has become the comfortable word for wanting to do good. In this Respectfully… conversation, Christopher Owen asks whether the word is enough, or whether it lets people perform solidarity without ever redistributing anything. We move from allyship to co-liberation: from being a good ally to doing the material, sometimes costly, work of change.
So, respectfully… can we talk about it?
This is a real conversation about allyship. It is also about:
-allyship as an insufficient frame
-allyship as performance
-co-liberation
-communities versus movements
-intersectionality without flattening people
-inclusion language versus liberation language
-solidarity as behaviour, not identity
-risk and redistribution
-respectability and hiding
-truthfulness over acceptability
The evening begins with a podcast discussion that opens up the theme and surfaces the key tensions, questions and lived realities. Lauren Gibson and Cynthia Birikundavyi then open those ideas out with attendees, creating a wider conversation where people can reflect, respond, add texture, challenge carefully and build on what has been said.
If you want to watch the discussion, if you want a lecture, if you want to find out 'the answer', you will be disappointed. This room is being deliberately shaped for a different kind of conversation. Made for participation, for enough room, for honesty.
At the end of the evening, Christopher Owen will be invited to press the big blue button and launch this month's episode of The Root Podcast live, together, in real time. Our room will choose to move the conversation out of the margins and into public space.
For anyone who has been asked to be an ally, anyone tired of being allied to, and anyone who wants solidarity to mean behaviour rather than a badge.
Powered by Beetroot. The Root Podcast goes live in the room.
Respectfully… can we talk about allyship?
Powered by Beetroot Consulting, with the live launch of this month's episode of The Root Podcast, recorded with Christopher Owen.
Allyship has become the comfortable word for wanting to do good. In this Respectfully… conversation, Christopher Owen asks whether the word is enough, or whether it lets people perform solidarity without ever redistributing anything. We move from allyship to co-liberation: from being a good ally to doing the material, sometimes costly, work of change.
So, respectfully… can we talk about it?
This is a real conversation about allyship. It is also about:
-allyship as an insufficient frame
-allyship as performance
-co-liberation
-communities versus movements
-intersectionality without flattening people
-inclusion language versus liberation language
-solidarity as behaviour, not identity
-risk and redistribution
-respectability and hiding
-truthfulness over acceptability
The evening begins with a podcast discussion that opens up the theme and surfaces the key tensions, questions and lived realities. Lauren Gibson and Cynthia Birikundavyi then open those ideas out with attendees, creating a wider conversation where people can reflect, respond, add texture, challenge carefully and build on what has been said.
If you want to watch the discussion, if you want a lecture, if you want to find out 'the answer', you will be disappointed. This room is being deliberately shaped for a different kind of conversation. Made for participation, for enough room, for honesty.
At the end of the evening, Christopher Owen will be invited to press the big blue button and launch this month's episode of The Root Podcast live, together, in real time. Our room will choose to move the conversation out of the margins and into public space.
For anyone who has been asked to be an ally, anyone tired of being allied to, and anyone who wants solidarity to mean behaviour rather than a badge.
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