In Common Light
Rooted reflections on belonging and being
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Social power is transactional. When one group loses, another group gains. We may understand this in economic terms. Money is transactional. People give up money for some type of product. What is not so obvious is that power is also transactional. We think that power is one-way. That we have power, and that is that…
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We often hear the phrases, “Nobody has life figured out,” and “Nobody knows what they are doing.” Upon hearing them for the first time, I felt relieved. I felt like I wasn’t doing enough in my school, I felt like everyone was happy all the time. I felt like there was something that I was…