Highlighting the Power of Small Things
Today we talk about power in terms strength, leadership, control, the person at the microphone, on the screen, the ones making policies. Everyone deserves equal access to that power no matter their gender, color, orientation, religion, or ability.
Every voice needs to be represented in conversations and decision-making. We need diversity in positions of power representative of the diversity on the ground. There is absolutely a place and a time to challenge, convict, and force change of the inappropriate, staid, and oppressive power dynamics that have been in place for far too long.
But. In the shouting and the tweeting and the outrage, in the grasping for obvious power that has too long been limited to too few, we can’t forget the power of the small, quiet, unknown, and steady.