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Published: July 9, 2020, 9:42 p.m.

In this episode, Adrienne shares a poem reflection about being accountable to justice, transforming outdated systems each day by using your voice to tell vulnerable stories even when it feels shaky or imperfect or re-membering and re-imagining the way you are using language with yourself and your kids. Tips shared include intentionally crossing out and changing some pronouns in children's books from he to they for a character like Bambi or any other in order to instill new paradigm ways of relating to gender with your children.   Or  listening to the wise words of Robin Wall Kimmerer, indigenous citizen of the Potawotomi Nation, decorated professor of environmental and forest biology and author of Braiding Sweetgrass, that indigenous languages had 70% verbs and 30% nouns in order to instill new paradigm ways of relating with our plant relatives. She calls this the "grammar of animacy". Though English may still be on the lips, you can switch this intentionally and address the tree not as an inanimate noun but an animate verb tree being, a subject alive and generous with oxygen, wood for houses, tables and chairs and juicy fruits to be cherished.  You can be accountable through gardening and intentionally building a relationship with Mama Gaia around you. You can be accountable by setting up monthly donations to indigenous/POC organizations in your area.  So many ways to show up and intentionally transform your slice of the paradigm shift. We can do this! 

Resources and links: 

Robin Wall Kimmerer Interview:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/23/robin-wall-kimmerer-people-cant-understand-the-world-as-a-gift-unless-someone-shows-them-how?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks

Donate to Indigenous and POC organizations: 

https://www.migizi.org/support-us

https://juxtapositionarts.org/

Schedule a call: 

www.adrienneerophillips.com

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