Michelle I really appreciate your dissection and dismantling of these words and the systemic othering, dehumanising and less-thaning behind them. Consistency is a particularly triggering one for me. So many words have been co-opted by supremacy culture and capitalism and used to exclude and then blame and shame those that don’t meet the narrow definition.
110% and its so hard to challenge because it seems so benign - who doesn’t want to be ‘consistent’? But who is deciding the schedule? And who benefits from setting the bar high? I consistently publish as soon as I have a) something to say and b) enough spoons to say it. And in the world of work there are so many, many tasks that need doing but not necessarily on a strict schedule.
Exactly! Really appreciate your articulation and lived experience. I think Rowan from Wild Inventures wrote a really good piece on consistency a while back. I’ll see if I can find it
Thanks! I miss Ro’s writing. I heard on Martha’s Gathering Room podcast that Ro has the ‘rona. Wishing her a full and prompt recovery, in case she happens to see this.
Michelle I really appreciate your dissection and dismantling of these words and the systemic othering, dehumanising and less-thaning behind them. Consistency is a particularly triggering one for me. So many words have been co-opted by supremacy culture and capitalism and used to exclude and then blame and shame those that don’t meet the narrow definition.
110% and its so hard to challenge because it seems so benign - who doesn’t want to be ‘consistent’? But who is deciding the schedule? And who benefits from setting the bar high? I consistently publish as soon as I have a) something to say and b) enough spoons to say it. And in the world of work there are so many, many tasks that need doing but not necessarily on a strict schedule.
Exactly! Really appreciate your articulation and lived experience. I think Rowan from Wild Inventures wrote a really good piece on consistency a while back. I’ll see if I can find it
Thanks! I miss Ro’s writing. I heard on Martha’s Gathering Room podcast that Ro has the ‘rona. Wishing her a full and prompt recovery, in case she happens to see this.
Oh no! Missing her presence here too :(