Intellectual (Thread) with Anne & Amy
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write”
~Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf first shared this sentiment back in 1928, just as women were coming into ever-more visibility and gradual power in all areas of public life. Since then, we've been searching for that mythic "room of our own". The magic space that would make it possible for us to do work that we love, express ourselves, create & to leverage our unique talents and abilities for a living (or dare we even hope thriving?!) wage, to boot.
In our first season, we looked to the origins of cannabis culture and the similar sentiment embedded there. Move up to the hills. Throw some plants in the ground. Build your own schools. Grow your own food. Create your own currency. Your own (counter) culture. We have also seen how that culture has been gradually (and almost wholly) taken over by the values of the dominant culture.
In this, our follow-up chat to our talk with the lovely Sandy Connery & Jennifer Barcelos of Namastream & Soulful MBA - we tackle the space of the Internet as one for people's and particularly women's voices and empowerment.
As more and more people flock to the virtual spaces to create their messaging, their own platform, and to create a form of livelihood - what are the dangers and pitfalls that we face? Can we step into the digital space and keep our values, our attention & our cultural (or, better yet, counter-cultural) values intact? Or are we destined to a similar fate as the back-to-the-landers faced? In striving to promote our own values and our own vision inside the unruly and noisy spaces of the inter webs... how do we stay sovereign? stolid? Sane?
Has technology, indeed, created this hallowed Room of our Own?
And, if so.. how are we to navigate and move about this space?
Thoughts on that plus some tools and resources we've unearthed to help us navigate this space.
We hope you enjoy.
