Belonging without Othering

In this week's episode we discuss Stephen Menendian's latest book, co-authored with john powell, called "Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World." Stephen starts us off with describing what "Othering" is, and how the framework can be helpful in examining - and can work towards remediating - forms of structural marginalization and inequality.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson chats with john a. powell

On Sept. 10, 2024, Othering & Belonging Institute Director john a. powell interviewed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk about her memoir, Lovely One.

Podcast: Land, Culture, and Belonging: Place-based Community Advocacy

Public space is essential for building a culture of belonging, but creating and preserving spaces for equitable public use often requires powerful advocacy and elaborate partnerships between community coalitions, city leaders, and developers. As...

Podcast: Leaning into Paradox: How We Can Block, Bridge & Build Our Democratic Future Together

We are facing a moment in history that requires us to develop new organizing modalities. We have to come together to block the threats we are facing to our democratic values, we need to bridge across differences to foster broad-based movements with...

Podcast: Democracy in Crisis The Courage to Re-Humanize One Another

This session dove into Bridging for Democracy (B4D), a project that is developing strategies through which grassroots power-building organizations meaningfully bridge across racial, ideological, and urban-rural divides to strengthen democratic norms...

Podcast: Using Data to Advance Belonging without Othering

Data is powerful, allowing crucial information about the prevailing social and material realities of our world to be conveyed. It can be used to advance very different and sometimes opposing goals. Indeed, data is often leveraged to identify issues...

Podcast: Expressions of Belonging

This session showcases multiple expressions of belonging, illustrating the benefit of belonging being advanced through an array of organizations at different scales and locations. The session offered a mix of stories, insights, and diverse approaches...

Podcast: Xenophobia, Resistance, and the Future of the Immigrant Rights Movement

Our panel discussion featured immigrant rights advocates from Mexican, Latino, Vietnamese, Jamaican and Chinese migrant communities who have been instrumental in organizing for the rights of immigrants and refugees in the United States. Through short...

Podcast: Resisting Austerity: Keeping Public Infrastructure Public

Austerity is not an abstract concept–it is a key feature of our day-to-day lives. Austerity–translated through public finance–changes our communities’ libraries, water and sanitation systems, education, and roads. These public systems and systems of...

Podcast: Bridging Through High School Ethnic Studies

The UC Berkeley High School Ethnic Studies Initiative (HSESI) is a collaboration between the American Cultures Center, Department of Ethnic Studies, and History-Social Science Project intended to develop curriculum materials to support Bay Area...

Podcast: Does Integration Close Racial Disparities?

In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Darrell Owens, a policy analyst at California Yimby, and a writer on Substack who focuses on housing, planning, displacement, mobility and other issues. He just authored a new piece called Segregation or...

Podcast: Building Bridges Over the Hills

In this episode, we speak with Sharon Dunn and Gwen Johnson — two members of Hands Across the Hills (HATH), a grassroots group working to build bridges between communities in rural Western Massachusetts and in the Eastern Kentucky coal country...

Podcast: Cultures of Care ep. 2 | Naima Green and Rich Medina

Welcome back to Cultures of Care, a special new miniseries from Who Belongs? hosted by Evan Bissell and Giovanna Fischer. This series celebrates people that practice collective care in unconventional and insurgent ways. In this episode, we speak with photographer Naima Green and DJ Rich Medina.

Podcast: Cultures of Care ep. 1 | Nicki Jizz and Kristina Wong

We're debuting Cultures of Care, a special new miniseries hosted by Evan Bissell and Giovanna Fischer that celebrates people who practice collective care in unconventional and insurgent ways. This episode, we speak with drag queen Nicki Jizz and comedian Kristina Wong.

Podcast: Returning Citizens

In this episode we speak with two of the founding members of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, the President Desmond Meade and the Political Director Neil Volz. Together, Desmond and Neil have been working on restoring the rights of people...

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Belonging Without Othering: A book talk with john a. powell and Stephen Menendian

Register for free We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for division and hierarchy along the lines of religion, race, ethnicity, sexuality and more are growing. Belonging without Othering: How We Save...

Belonging without Othering

In this week's episode we discuss Stephen Menendian's latest book, co-authored with john powell, called "Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World." Stephen starts us off with describing what "Othering" is, and how the framework can be helpful in examining - and can work towards remediating - forms of structural marginalization and inequality.