Episode 23: Alice Lovelace - A Peaceful Distrupter

<h2><strong>Episode 23: Alice Lovelace - A Peaceful Disrupter</strong></h2><h2><br></h2><h2><u>Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes</u></h2><p><strong>What is "This Poem" really about?</strong></p><blockquote><em>T</em>his poem is a cultural hybrid </blockquote><blockquote>Travelin' everywhere</blockquote><blockquote>Belongin' nowhere</blockquote><blockquote>Irresponsible,&nbsp;Irreverent </blockquote><blockquote>And totally irrelevant</blockquote><p><br></p><p><strong>What do you mean by Peaceful Disrupter?</strong></p><blockquote><em>I am never happy with the status quo. So, I'm always looking for ways to disrupt the status quo and to move it in a more progressive [way] or [by] empowering those who I see are being left behind.</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>And that has to happen a lot, they have to be those who make other people uncomfortable, so that in their discomfort they actually deeply contemplate change. Because when we are comfortable, we don't contemplate change.</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>... I'm a peaceful disruptor. I don't get loud. I don't, I definitely look for opportunities to shift power and to shift the conversation,</em></blockquote><p><br></p><p><strong>What does "asking permission" mean in a classroom?</strong></p><blockquote><em>When I walk into a classroom, the first thing I say to my class is I asked permission to be there. And often the teachers don't understand that, but I will say to the students, “this is your community, and I am an interloper, and other adults have made a decision that I should be here, but the rightful decision-makers are you because you were the one who had the power to make this a success or to make it a failure”. So, I always ask their permission.</em></blockquote><p><br></p><p><strong>How can you fight the power of the false narrative?</strong></p><blockquote><em>I've never forgot the lesson of. Standing up to bullies, not getting into the stories people are telling about you, ...the moment that you try to speak to that story, all it's going to do