Social justice for the sensitive soul how to change the world in quiet ways

"Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. It requires leading, advocating, fighting, and organizing wherever it takes place--in the streets, slums, villages, inner cities, halls of political power, and more. But what does social justice work look like for those o...

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Main Author: Cheng-Tozun, Dorcas (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Broadleaf Books, [2023]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The sensitive soul. The gifts and limitations of sensitivity
  • Why the world needs you
  • Shedding the activist ideal
  • The resilient sensitive
  • The value of nonsensitive collaborators
  • Part II: Considerations and questions. Pursuing activism as you are
  • What : discovering purpose without being confined by it
  • Who : sources of great strength or great harm
  • When : the long arc of justice in our own lives
  • Where : the places and spaces that help us thrive
  • Part III: Pathways and possibilities. Your imagination unleashed
  • Connectors
  • Creatives
  • Record keepers
  • Builders
  • Equippers
  • Researchers
  • The integrity of you
  • Appendix: Your uniquely sensitive self.