{"id":5454,"date":"2022-05-26T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2022-05-26T01:12:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T05:12:04","slug":"indispensable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/indispensable\/","title":{"rendered":"Indispensable"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5454\" class=\"elementor elementor-5454\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3baa10d8 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-items-bottom elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3baa10d8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{"stretch_section":"section-stretched","background_background":"classic"}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-38a13841\" data-id=\"38a13841\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37f99f25 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile animated-slow elementor-view-default elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"37f99f25\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{"_animation":"fadeInDown"}\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-angle-double-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-38019c1e elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"38019c1e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-712a4186\" data-id=\"712a4186\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7451a08f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7451a08f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/H3htK85wwnU\" target=\"_blank\">Photo: Mitchell Luo\/Unsplash<\/a><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1653c012 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1653c012\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7cea72b9\" data-id=\"7cea72b9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-745f119a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"745f119a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">5. 26. 2022<\/h3>\n<h1>Indispensable<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/tag\/kate-klein\/\"><strong>Kate Klein<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br>I\u2019ve been thinking about the hidden costs of what others perceive as our natural gifts. Just because we’re good at something doesn’t mean it comes easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I notice two general tendencies in how we talk about bringing new people into social movements, or supporting their leadership. One tendency is to say: “The movement needs ALL gifts! Activism doesn’t have to look like just one thing! If you’re good at writing, then be a movement writer! If you’re good at research, then research for the movement! If you’re good at accounting, then be a movement accountant!” I think this tendency has really gained steam lately as people try to make getting involved seem and feel more accessible. It’s a way of challenging the production of activist celebrities, which can make organizing seem unapproachable, like something that only a special kind of superstar can do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A second tendency is to see social movements as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vehicles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for revolutionary capacity-building. This tendency tells us that we don’t have to wait to be good at activism before becoming activists; practice is how we get good at things. There are many skills that are needed in the work of making change happen. Not only can organizing help us build a wide array of these skills, but we all actually have a responsibility to do so. This is important if our movements are to stay strong and resilient in shifting social conditions, and if the labour of sustaining them is to be fairly distributed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don’t see these tendencies as mutually exclusive. While I tend towards the second, I see the value of the first. But, while at its best the first is about cultivating diversity and accessibility in our movements, I also see it facilitating and entrenching burnout amongst us when it\u2019s taken to its extreme. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My experience of burnout tells me that when you are seen as good at something, people tend to assume you will do it. When you are seen as good at something, sometimes that ends up being the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">only<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thing you find yourself doing, because people always expect it of you. This isn’t done maliciously. It simply becomes a collective habit, and can even be seen as a way of acknowledging your strengths. The thing you are good at is seen as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your job<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you’re a part of a social change organization and you’re the only one who’s comfortable with public speaking, or writing a press release, or facilitating a meeting, or posting on Twitter…and a speech, a press release, a meeting, or a tweet is needed…it becomes incredibly difficult to say no to doing that thing. Because the movement <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">needs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rousing speeches, savvy media skills, keen facilitation, and social media wizardry. And if you don’t do it, who will?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(This is burnout logic, of course. I know. And you <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">could<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> try to mentor other people, but have you tried doing that when you\u2019re burnt out? Especially if you\u2019re like me and have a full-time day job that involves a huge amount of care work?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe all of this is okay if what you’re good at feels relatively neutral to you. But when using your gift <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">costs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you something…I don’t know. What could it look like for us to see people’s gifts not as a resource to be extracted but as a cherished source of energy that needs care and replenishment?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had to live three decades of life before I learned this lesson: being good at something doesn’t mean you have to do it. Being good at something doesn’t mean it’s good <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you. Being good at something doesn’t mean you need to do it in all contexts of your life. Being good at something doesn’t mean that it has to be the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">only<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thing you do. And being good at something doesn’t mean you have to be alone in doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anybody with gifts that lie in the use of their body knows this, I think. Skilled singers know that singing constantly, at full volume, would harm their instrument. A weightlifter knows that it’s important to switch up the particular strength exercises they’re doing in order to work different muscles and avoid injury. The ability to run a marathon doesn’t logically translate to “now I guess I’m doing this every day.” That would be absurd. So why do we expect this constancy and consistency from more emotional and relational skills? Why do we think that a skilled conflict-resolver can or should do that work all the time? Why do we think that a skilled facilitator wants to always be facilitating, that a skilled listener wants to always be listening, that a skilled coordinator wants to always be coordinating, or that a skilled strategist wants to always be strategizing? We need a variety of people to be able to do a variety of things in order for those skills (and the people who have them) to stay present in our movements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I desperately want people to feel like their <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">being<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is indispensable to the struggle, but that the manner in which they contribute can grow and change and shift direction when needed (or wanted). I want this for everybody, including myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don’t think that everybody has to learn how to do all things. Of course, we each have gifts, and those should be seen and recognized. Of course, we all have things that we absolutely cannot do, or that cost us too much. But I do believe in collectively having a general orientation towards learning how to do lots of different kinds of movement tasks. Because we know that how activist labour is distributed is gendered, it’s raced, and it’s classed. If we naturalize the fact that it’s always disabled activists facilitating the access stuff \u201cbecause we’re good at it,\u201d if we naturalize the fact that it’s always women of colour resolving conflict in our groups \u201cbecause they’re good at it,\u201d if we naturalize the fact that men are doing all the public speaking \u201cbecause they’re good at it\u201d…I mean, come on. This isn’t new; we’ve been talking about who’s doing the dishes on the left for ages. But I often wonder whether people realize that this well-meaning but essentially individualistic “gift-oriented” approach to activist onboarding kind of perpetuates these same age-old problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am such a young activist. I have not been organizing for very long! There is so much that I still want to learn how to do! I want all of us to feel like radical organizations are spaces where we can not only build power collectively, but also <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> powerful through the supported, lifelong cultivation of our skills. When lots of people know how to do lots of things, that makes it easier for people to take breaks, to make different choices; they can switch it up and mix it up and put on a new hat and decide to take it off again. It means the same people don’t always get stuck doing the same hard work just because we\u2019ve all internalized the same \u201cyou should do what you’re good at\u201d message. It means that when we start to feel burnout knocking at our door, maybe we don’t have to jump ship. Maybe we get to take some time to do something that costs us a little less, knowing there is space for that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What new activist skill have <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> been wanting to learn but haven’t pursued because it was someone else’s \u201cthing\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44c527fb elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"44c527fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-sun\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25d30a99 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"25d30a99\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Kate Klein is a facilitator, teacher, and activist based in Toronto. A self-described “process nerd,” she works with social movement groups to help them work together better. 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