Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

Learning From Abroad to Reimagine Health Knowledge Systems for Equity and Wellbeing The goal of this funding opportunity is to learn from other countries and communities around the world and surface solutions that can help the U.S. make the ways we produce, use, and share knowledge a...

Funding opportunity! It allows organizations to learn from efforts outside of the U.S. to reimagine and rebuild the health knowledge system in ways that can withstand systemic threats while advancing health equity and wellbeing for the future.

Prisons, Prose & Protest - #36 Rants, Musings and More

In my March edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I share an overview of a 1964 pamphlet by Anne Braden that remains relevant today. I recommend a podcast about a project documenting Black girlhood in photography and prose, several good recent articles and essays, and also I am raffling some prints.

It is always a good time to be kind to people you want to persuade.

Do you also have work (paid or unpaid) where you fix things and make them even stronger? What do you repair?

Screenshot of the "Does that use a lot of energy?" online app

Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities.

This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here.

hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...

So not to be misinterpreted- i don't mean that the answer is to stay the course with just any old plan. What we need is clearer than ever and the urgency is increasing exponentially by the week. We need a world with more peace, more cooperation, more justice, and more speed.

Scaling With Proximity: Why Locally Led and Governed Adaptation Works I like to begin the year in motion — listening, exchanging, and reflecting together. Last week, I was in Cape Town, South Africa, participating in the Workshop on Community-Governed Adaptation Finance...

If you need to read about something working, something based on local knowledge and solidarity to bring impact to scale check this out! www.linkedin.com/pulse/scalin...

Long long ago I was hanging out with a girl who would often say "We're all just dogs wearing sweaters" as if that was a common saying. She had made it up, but we all know what that means I think. Now I, too, say it as if it's a known idiomatic phrase. And now it is.

will do, thanks Mike

Thank you for both references I will check them out.

Whole lot of responding to crisis from the same worldview that created it today. Though your power to interrupt that pattern may be small, even insignificant it is still bigger than zero. Can you tend even a tiny sliver of this broken world within and without?

It's fractal. Do you disrupt domination & supremacy patterns wherever you find them (even, maybe especially) in your own heart/mind? Do you strengthen mutuality & interdependence wherever you can? The little moments build strength, wisdsom, & pattern recognition for the bigger ones, in my experience

The ugly truth is that to fight BIG F fascism folks have to fight the

Little f fascism that they often let permeate their whole lives

For those familiar with the language of IFS - I'm interested in work looking at the idea that, from the behavior of a certain type of leader in gov't or business to overconsumption patterns, we might see the behavior of unexamined unintegrated "protector parts"

Who would I read to explore Internal Family Systems theory (aka "parts work") as a way to understand drivers of eological overshoot, authoritarianism and other crises of our times?

Apollo with the dodgeball of prophecy

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

Gold cover with green border, green lettering, Hope and Rest, E Wetherell, The Lily Series, decoration of foliage and white flowers, scene at bottom of book of shore and landscape.

Book Cover of the Day:

We had a purple and grey plastic dinosaur that would arise from the garden beds year after year for many years, long after the kids had outgrown such things - your post made me smile.

It’s not a distraction it’s a fractal

A hand holds an art print with a gray background. In black and pink letters, it says "resistance to state repression, colonial violence, and imperial deathmaking is an ultimate form of love." It has illustrations of flowers, mushrooms, and other plants growing out of, and breaking apart, guns, bombs, and grenades.

🧵 of anti-imperialist art I'm finding particularly meaningful today.

This one is by @ollycostello.bsky.social:
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I'm ordering a few copies for the young people and the graphic novel lovers in my life because YES DAMN IT a Better World is Definitely Possible ❤️ 💚 💔

Same

Start working somewhere, anywhere, as the threads all connect and no part of the vision of justice and a life-affirming society can be fully realized without all the other parts.

It is people who have captured power at the center of empires who profit most from both.

It is children and workers and people far from the centers of empire who suffer most both from war and fossil fuel use.

Peace is a climate solution. Energy efficiency, renewables & walkability are peace building in that they weaken one excuse for war.

When people respond to a crisis from a different world view than the one that created it I consider it a Seed for the Future. Here's one: "Organized through Signal, rag-tag groups of residents are clearing essential city infrastructure like sidewalks and bus stops"

Thank yoe; very interesting!

If easy for you to recommend, I would appreciate a short lay-person level article about open source ecosystems for AI. I'd like to understand that better.

There are little pockets in my life for regenerative agriculture or more holistic health care. I think I'm interested in finding the pockets of ethical just and sustainable AI. I'd find that very interesting and instructive.