I was home yesterday with an awful cold, watching television and feeling grumpy, when I got sucked into an old episode of Gilmore Girls. Here’s the part where I admit my pet project of analyzing pop culture portrayals of rich kids. It comes with a disclaimer—I know how painful these stereotypes can be, and, what’s…
Holy cow. It’s been a little over a month since I became Interim Co-Director of Resource Generation, and just a few short weeks since Elspeth and I found out we would be co-directors. What a whirlwind. I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while. Capture my thoughts and share with my community as…
By Dev Aujla A shuttle picked us up from the train in Chappaqua, NY. The driver was intent on getting us to the retreat center, racing through several small upper NY townships a tad too fast. It was the opening of the Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy Retreat run by Resource Generation, and to the…
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” – Jean-Paul Sartre There’s a new book about freedom. It’s called Freedom. It’s not a political book. It’s a novel, written by Jonathan Franzen, who last month’s Time magazine cover proclaimed to be the “Great American Novelist.” (Who knew that there were still novels?…
My name is Sarah and I am a 22-year-old owning-class white queer womyn. When I turned 21 I inherited around $600,000 from my parents. It came to me in two different accounts, and had no legal strings attached (and not many emotional ones either). This money comes from both sides of my family. On my…
Check out this new article from RG board member Dev Aujla! Reposted from Wednesday’s Huffington Post. Close to three years ago, I stumbled into the organizing world for what was originally supposed to be a getaway in West Virginia for a conference called ‘Leveraging Privilege for Social Change’. I was expecting a week away from email,…
I remember thinking that I had been hired to teach them something. I was a sophomore in college and I had been hired to be a Summer Resident Assistant for a youth program that wanted to save 100 “at-risk” young people of color in Dallas, Texas. I had been hired to transform the lives of…
two things have been on my mind a lot lately. one, the US Social Forum- particularly the conversations, workshops, and organizing around funding and being in the movement as someone with money, white skin, and class privilege. two, the reading i’ve been doing lately on the mississippi freedom summer of 1964. i’m connecting a lot…
I stepped off the plane from the US Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit, and onto a luxury bicycle tour with my family. I never expected I’d hear the words, “luxury” and “bicycle” in the same sentence. But here I am, scribbling in my journal, from my room, a French Country style turret tucked into feathers…
I was reading over the notes from Resource Generation’s final delegation meeting at the US Social Forum 2010 this morning and one question seemed apropos to this posting, “How can we leverage our privilege to support Detroit?” This is one example. It started with liquidating some of the community investment notes I had with the…
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