Wednesday, January 20, 2010

My allyship project

I am currently undertaking a project to study what it means to be an ally to people living in poverty. I've been meaning to do this for quite a while, but I am now finally getting around to it. I am doing this by reading about allyship, and by interviewing people who are allies or who have worked with allies. I'm planning to post stuff here as I develop it so that the wider world can see it (since I know you're reading, wider world) and, more importantly, so that people I've interviewed can check out what I'm writing and make sure I'm not misrepresenting them terribly.

I am not sure what the final outcome of this project may be. It could end up being a training curriculum. It could end up being a book. It could end up going no farther than the blog you're looking at right now. I'm not really sure. But regardless of how developed it gets, I hope that at least I will gain some insight by it, since I would like to flatter myself be believing that I am a committed ally.

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