Accessing Your Power with Roxane Gay and Megan Pillow

This powerful episode in our Queer Futures series features an enlightening conversation about power structures with Jen and renowned author Roxanne Gay and co-writer Megan Pillow. The women explore not only the concept of individual power, but how we can engage in community empowerment. Together, they delve into how marginalized communities, particularly LGBTQ+ individuals, can claim their power and challenge existing power structures to create a more inclusive and just society.
Discussion includes:
• Claiming Individual Power: How women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and others can assert their power in personal and professional spaces.
• Challenging Power Structures: The importance of calling out abuses of power and questioning the status quo to foster societal change.
• Empowerment Through Solidarity: The role of community and collective action in amplifying individual voices and driving social progress.
• Re-examining Power Dynamics: How rethinking traditional notions of gender, race, and power can lead to more equitable outcomes.
• Focusing on the Margins: The significance of centering marginalized voices and experiences in conversations about power and progress.
Roxanne and Megan discuss practical steps that anyone can take to empower others around them. From speaking out against abuses of power to actively centering the experiences of marginalized groups, these actions are crucial for creating meaningful change.
We’re encouraged to ask ourselves critical questions about our own relationships to power and to question the power sources that infringe on the rights of others and use our individual power to disrupt them. Whether it's confronting racism, misogyny, or homophobia, every small act of resistance contributes to a larger movement for justice.
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CHECK OUT Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
➤ Bad Feminist by Dr. Roxane Gay - roxanegay.com/books/bad-femin...
➤ Difficult Women by Dr. Roxane Gay - roxanegay.com/books/difficult-women
➤ Hunger by Dr. Roxane Gay -roxanegay.com/books/hunger
➤ All of Roxane’s Books - roxanegay.com/books
➤ Do The Work: A Guide to Understanding Power and Creating Change by Dr. Roxane Gay and ➤ Dr. Megan Pillow - bit.ly/45nxhvd
➤ The Power Book: What is it, Who Has it, and Why? by Dr. Roxane Gay - bit.ly/3VBRYAl
➤ Obergefell v. Hodges (2015 Supreme Court case making same-sex marriages legal in the U.S.) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges
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➤ Roxane’s Website: roxanegay.com/
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➤ The Audacity (Roxane and Megan’s Stubstack Blog): audacity.substack.com
➤ Megan’s Website: meganpillow.com
➤ Craftwork (Megan’s Substack Blog) -craftwork.substack.com
➤ Megan’s Instagram: megpillow77
➤ Megan’s Twitter: megpillow
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