Fragility

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Vanessa Andreotti (Indigenous scholar at UBC) suggests that cultural shifts can only occur when we are willing to really discuss the hard pieces of its complex problems. We need to be okay with fragility. In other words, we need to be okay with our vulnerability, even in an institutional setting. When discussing social issues in the classroom, there has never been a space to insert how their complex and messy parts, personally connect with my life. Perhaps there is space to discuss positionality, but never really move beyond the quantitative premise that the information is being disseminated from.