1.29.25 Lunar New Year • Year of The Snake 🐍 When we shed what no longer serves us, we often take a deep look at the friction in our lives that play out in power dynamics between oppression, submission and internalization of our role in that system - in order to free ourselves from it. I recently started reading the book “We are not born Submissive” by Manon Garcia … “La Boétie, in Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, is the first to wonder what makes the masses decide to obey a tyrant who dominates them when this tyrant only has power because the masses submit to him. …Since the silencing of women is identified as one of the mechanisms of male domination, one of the elements of the feminist and marginalized struggle against patriarchal oppression is ensuring that women’s & marginalized voices are being heard and recognized as important, in opposition to the patriarchal system in which white men speak in place of women and marginalized peoples. In this respect, studying women’s su...