Live, hello everybody. Welcome back to the coolest dog journey channel on the planet I am here in Miami, Florida absolutely Hot very hot here. I hope everyone's doing very well when you get here, of course leave your Comments below. Let me know you guys are here, and we're gonna get started today, and we're gonna talk about Why your dog doesn't seem to you when you're outside? So as you can see I have these because I've been flying the last couple of days. I lost my his Sweden I lost my AirPods Anyway moving forward so many dogs come outside. They do not listen to their owners They're yip yap and they're barking at every other dog. They're barking at people. They're pulling on the leash and A lot of questions we've gotten on my Instagram when we did the what do you guys want to hear for a topic? While we get our other production videos up tomorrow in the rest of the week is is The main one came in is why won't my dog listen to me when I'm outside? Why won't my dog listen to me when we've done the training inside and when we try to go outside the dog doesn't listen?  What are you giving your dog to have a higher currency than what's around them such as flowers other dogs? Anything literally anything What are you doing to make your relationship better or more have more currency and add more value to your dog?  You know really you got to really realize your goals and a lot of times what happens is is when people come out They expect their dogs to just be content and happy on the leash and just walk around and obviously if you're watching this video That probably isn't the case So taking the consideration how much activity and how much stimulation your dog gets on a regular basis If your dog gets out of the house for a walk once a day once a week Whatever you have to consider these things because if they're in the house their animals so if they're in the house and they're doing nothing all day and laying around and Just waiting for something to do and then you go outside And you expect them to listen to you that I believe that that's that's not fair And that's not probably gonna happen either Just right now. This is a pretty dog from the hotel and even before I left New York I would go on walks and all the dogs in the windows are barking all the dogs that are on the leash that are outside to go pee And poop are barking at us. Why?   Imagine being in detention all day just sitting there not necessarily being punished But you're not doing anything and then all of a sudden they go. Hey, let's go outside You're like heck.  You're out letting that on something so Bring in your dog outside and having them a little bit more Social outside and a little bit a little bit more Used to be an outside and desensitizing the whole outside process is one step to do but also Not teaching them an engaging command is also a Step that that really will make you downfall when you're outside and you're engaging with your dog So really quick if you guys are here like this video and let me know if you have any questions and I'm gonna Lisa thank you for hopping on live. I'm gonna I'm gonna answer some questions after this But this video is is why won't your dog listen to you outside? It's and again talking about The exercise that you provide and the stimulation that you provide And then why does your dog bark at other dogs when they're outside? again dogs or animals they When they see other dogs when they're outside, they're obviously gonna react accordingly A really well balanced well exercise dog is not gonna go out and bark at everybody because they're used to being outside They've been on the walk every single day or they've been on a walk A couple times that day or whatever it may be and they're used to being outside So they're not gonna go out and bark at everything they see over and they become overstimulated because they're used to being outside And they're they're this is something that they're that they're used to so typically dogs will bark at other dogs when they're outside For that exact reason is they literally have nothing else to do they maybe go outside once or twice So that's overstimulation just because the dog barks at another dog. It's not necessarily a negative thing They're just saying hey What's up?  Why why would your dog go outside and disengage with you again? I think I think the other thing is is just making sure that we understand that it is completely okay for dogs to be Social they're social animals so we can't yell at them for engaging and trying to engage with another dog Trying to interact with another dog But you have to make sure that your obedience is matching up with your realistic expectations So when you're out with your dog and your dog sees another dog and they whine and they yell and they scream and they want You need to be able to say hey leave it. You're working right now Obedience is literally obey So when you say hey leave it you're working. We don't know that dog. We don't have time for that dog We're running late whatever it may be When dogs see each other when they're outside, they're not gonna they're gonna see each other big. Hey man, what's up? They're not gonna you know with humans. We're like we don't know them. They're busy They're with their family whatever when dogs see each other They're they're not they're they're ready to go there. They're not politically correct. They're not like hey You're busy with your family. They're gonna say hey, let's play or let's interact So when you have a we have a very young social dog and your dog is not listening to you when you're out That's probably because you're not ready for that type of training yet so you're setting yourself up by Failing the dog by going outside and saying hey buddy listen and your dog's like Scraping to get to the other dog and trying to play and crying and whining and wagging their tail And you're frustrated as heck because you're like oh man My dog's not healing my dog's not sitting my dog's not staying and and all and all your training goes out the window And your dog doesn't listen to you outside Well, that's just because you're probably just not ready for that step yet And that's very very very common with dog trainers and dog owners is they put their dogs into these situations where they're They're not ready yet, and they get frustrated and they fail So that's that's I think one big thing of why dogs don't listen to their owners when they're outside is simply because you're just Not ready for that step yet It takes a very long gradual process when you have a young social dog to get out there and and and see other dogs and say oh I'm training. I can't look at you that that takes a very long time for dogs to desensitize to that process And again going back to the original thing that I said in the beginning of the video is if your dog gets out Once a day once a week or whatever it may be under the circumstances that you're in It's not fair to get the dog out and say hey Pay attention to me and only me when there's other dogs and your dog is becoming social and your dog wants to go out and play And so those are some main contributing factors really quick guys if you guys are here Like this video ask me your dog training questions below. I'm going to answer them here in a minute But those are some contributing factors to why dogs don't listen to you outside Why would they what are you doing to add more currency and to add and the other thing is is just teaching your dog a simple Focus command to get your dog on to you now the other side to that is is once people realize that once they realize how they Once they realize how they Can get their dogs attention and once they realize that it's okay if their dog is going after or not going after But if the dog is engaged into other dogs, you have to also expect that decompression or that break So when you're out especially with your adolescent dog and especially with a dog that you haven't been doing that much training with outside You do need that decompression.   Oh, you guys almost fell there Don't have too high of expectation of when you're out. You want your dog completely locked into you the entire time I don't do that Nobody nobody actually does that even service dog trainers or the service dog training We're not going to expect them to completely lock eyes with us the entire time, how do we get okay? So anyway before I get to questions Questions here, let's see where they hope all that information made made sense About going out and being realistic with your dog and then also understanding that dogs are social and it's okay And you have to have boundaries to okay, so what we're gonna do is I think my Wi-Fi is a little actually I'm not on Wi-Fi. I'm on my service is a little weird I want you guys to leave questions in the comments below after I after I launched this video and I'm going to I'm gonna answer them accordingly as they come in But somebody just asked how to create the focus command So you're just gonna get food or you're gonna get some sort of reward for the dog And you're going to have the the command be boom right here right at your face And you're gonna reward the dog when they look at you using your verbal marker your yes your Good good focus good look good on me Whatever you want to call it and then this unit the dog looks at you You're gonna pay them with the food the important thing what that is is to make sure you transition out the food delivery system Where if the dogs here you don't want to constantly be paying from here because then the dogs only gonna be focusing on the food So making sure you can take your reward Or move it away if the dog's still locked in then you pay them. So just making sure that the dog is Not just following the food is actually doing the behavior you want them to do Which just focus right here and then over time you develop that in series Just like we do with anything else You're not going to go outside after you do focused once and then get the dog to do what you want to do So anyway, I'm gonna answer questions you guys leave in the comments below remember like this and the thousand subscribers which is absolutely Put up the content because I'm seeing how much of a value it brings to dog owners And how many messages and emails that we get about people saying how much that the situations that some of my clients are in Out of the state are helping them So I'm gonna continue to travel and train as long as you guys keep staying engaged on here as long as you guys keep Engaging so that's basically how we can tell How how people are engaging with my youtube channel and how people are engaging with these videos is Leaving comments and leaving likes on the video to let me know you guys are watching and paying attention And you enjoy the videos that I'm doing and if that continues to happen and Then we're gonna continue to keep out putting out videos. So if you guys haven't yet Leave a comment below Like the video, of course subscribe if you feel like this is valuable to you But anyway, leave your comments after this lab video. I'm gonna answer your questions I'm gonna go up to my room start getting on these questions and I'm excited to talk to you guys


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Good afternoon, Howard Wigg, Code Green, Think Tech Hawaii. We're talking today about resilient homes that can withstand just about anything and be affordable and be comfortable and be resource efficient. Who else could put all of this together in little old Hawaii? Mr. Dennis Suzuki, Factory Authorized Representative for Strata International. What in the world is Strata International? Just a little company, 34 billion annual sales. Thank you very much all over the world. And we're going to get into the details of what makes Strata's buildings really, really, really special and particularly applicable to Hawaii. So welcome to the program, Mr. Suzuki, and thank you so much. Thank you so much for inviting us. So first give us a little background about what Strata is all about worldwide. Strata is a company that makes foam houses in one area that is insulated. And it's durable, low income housing. We also can go high end, commercial housing, and we can go up to several stories high. And our job is to make the shell on it. And we insulate the item with polystyrene as well as we use some additive. And we also use sand. And we also use items like some sort of adhesive to put them together. And it's a great thing for Hawaii. And this falls under the general heading of modular homes where you make building components, especially home components, at the factory, ship them in such that they can fit into a mats and container and onto the back of a truck.   First of all, you don't need to have skilled labor. We can go on the raw end of the program. And we don't need any cranes, lifts or anything. They can do it themselves. It's lightweight for shipping. And it has a frame construction to lift out, bonded on one corner. And the homes can last more than 100 years. Yep, yep. And we're going to see the details of that if we could bring the first slide up place out. Now here is a cross section of your typical wall construction. Can you? It looks like an extruded polystyrene interior. And then, you have any idea what subscrete is? It's a cement. Now, what I'm wondering is, Hawaii is rich in certain natural resources, including basalt rock. I wonder if, and a lot of our concrete comes from that locally mined basalt rock. I wonder if the local basalt could be, if we went into assembly or manufacture locally, if the basalt rock could be ground up and used as that component. Well depending on where the rock is at, because I got a call from the people who want to use the volcano. And I'm against that because it might happen to seal her item. So what we can do is that we can consider the sand because it's something that we already have. We can have things like, it's an expanded polystyrene, but this has nothing to do with the polystyrene on the lunch container. Okay. Oh, totally different. Totally different. Okay. The adhesive that we make is going to be a fantastic thing to bond it together. And all we're looking at is finish. It's going to be at one and a quarter inch, one and a half inch, depending on where we put it. And the thing is this, is that the thing is strong. It can go hurricane, high winds, it can keep the temperature very, very cool. And it is a wonderful item. And one thing, one of the buzzwords that's going around the architectural community and the building community recently is resiliency. We know that more extreme weather is coming, coming. We've already experienced quite a bit of it in the last few years. And it ain't going to get any better. We know that. So the city planners and the state planners and architects, engineers are revolving around the idea of resiliency. And it sounds like this type of structure is kind of the ultimate in a resilient structure. It's going to take just about anything that Mother Nature can throw at it. Yes. Thank you very much. As you know, there's no framing in this. And you can shape it any shape you want. We even help the zoo if we need to. Superior performance, insulation, reliability, structure integrity.  And as you were inviting me, it's green, eco-friendly construction material. And it's very fast to assemble, requires no heavy equipment, very lightweight, safe construction for unskilled workers, as I mentioned to you. Two-part system make for simple logistics, inexpensive to build while staying extremely durable and safe. And your part of safe is the weather, you know. And of course, we build a water table so we can do that in Cacaco or in Mapuna Puna. It looks like just from what you've shown me about how this thing is assembled that it really and truly is waterproof. So if we have flooding events and the water starts sloshing around, I think all you need to do is just ensure that the water doesn't get through the doorwells. It floats. It floats. Just like your boogie barn or just like your surfboard, it floats. So if we're in a lower part of Mapuna Puna and the flooding came up, it would just float up. And then when the water resided, it would go right back down again. You can't get much more resilient than that. So why don't we look at the next slide because you've got all kinds of different offerings. Now this looks like a thermal analysis about where, say, the heat is coming through the building. Do you know any detail about this? Yeah. When they design the thing, they have to make sure what the weather is like with the sunrise, the sunset, where they put in the equipment because you cannot put high-tech equipment in a warm place. Because it's producing heat as it is. That's everybody's problem. And you cannot put, if you need to put an overhang to make the rain go away, then you need to put what you call an extended roofline. And the thing is that this building is on the big island. This is a rendering of a big island building. Yes, it's a big island. All the colors you see there is all made out of the foam. So we can build any shape you want. And our job is to make sure that when the architect or the designer makes it, we double check it and check it. And we have to make sure the foundation sits where you're going to put the weight on it. And because ours is so light, it can hold the weight. So in this particular instance, this is a very, very complex building, the architect would send the specs to the factory. I think you have worldwide factories because you're worldwide. I assume there's one on the mainland. And they would figure out how to build the different components and how to make the components small enough so that they can fit under the back of a truck. So that you put it in a medicine container or whatever, ship it over here, it gets offloaded to trucks. And then the different components get shipped to the building site. You have your foundation ready. Already made. I had a tie ready, waiting for our unit to go on. And then it just, as you said, just takes a few guys to assemble it. And it could be if you unskilled guys, of course we've got nothing but skilled people here in Hawaii. We can use unskilled. Yeah. Yeah. We'll bring the people from the mainland to help. Yeah. And we get them going. So what we can provide is that we provide technical training, field training, construction and technical design. We can help structural technology, construction estimate, which we'll give. And training on CAD and software application, we even negotiate with the county code official to tell them what's right and what's wrong. Mm-hmm. We don't provide plans, equipment and produce our brand. And provide fire coding to suppress four hours. Yeah. Yeah. Just like Macapolo. We need to work on that. Yes. Yes. So I happen to be chair of the Hawaii Building Code Council. So we have all the different building codes sitting around a table once a month. And you struck on some of the basic concerns that we talk about as we're sitting around. Of course, after the Macapolo, we're all very, very, very fire conscious. Right. We've had some bad, bad residential fires just in the last couple of weeks, too. So it's something that we certainly can't solve overnight, but we really, really need to address it. And building with this type of material goes a long way towards doing that. Okay. Because we insulate the thing, we have high insulation, lower operation costs, which you concern about energy, extremely durable, lower maintenance costs. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Make non-combustible material, eliminate the possibility of structure fire. Mm-hmm. And structure is easy to modify, remodel, to reproduce the building if they want to do it for their children to make an extension, or we don't want to do so. We can do this to help them. Mm-hmm. And you mentioned high insulation. There's two ways to build, say, a residence in Hawaii.  And the homes that are going up in the Eva Plains and on the neighbor islands in the subdivisions, they are centrally air conditioned. So the better insulated they are, the smaller the AC unit can be. You're right. Because you don't have heat pouring in through the walls and the windows and so forth. And you mentioned overhangs, the more you can overhang, say, windows. You don't get damages. Yeah. Yeah, from the weather and the rain, like, you know, and I noticed a lot of houses are built next to the coal house. I keep on telling the businesses and people, move the building this way. Make your entrance on the opposite side. Don't do it that way. Make it so the water is not close to the house, away on the ground, away, and not put the water or the air conditioning dripping on the dirt next to your house. It'll cause termites. And by the way, our building is termite free. Yep. Yep. And polystyrene. Yes. Yes. A lot of things, but not EPS. Can we see the next slide, please? Okay. So the big island home that you showed, or structure, is obviously a luxury structure. Here's an example of another one. We just wanted to make certain that you, to say that you build on the high end and then we'll see the affordable side. So this looks like it's right on the coast. And another consideration is that from what I can see, the components of your building are resistant to salt air. Yes. Very, very important in Hawaii. I think every one of us has experienced the salt water damage, even miles from the ocean because the salt air is virtually everywhere. Yeah. We have three components. Now, two components on that. It's a shell of the foam. That's one thing. And we do have quarter-inch of insulation that will reflect, keep the walls from getting damaged. And it's easy to paint over, but you don't normally paint. We have the insulation paint that you can do it. And this will keep the salt air, the wind and the rain away from the house. And you said one of my favorite words, which is reflectivity. Yeah. Energy codes guy for the state. And I emphasize three things. Reflectivity, reflectivity, reflectivity. And I saw where you're building, that building is white, and we'll see the affordable housing. Those are also very light colors, which are ideal for a tropical climate. But on that cherry note, we need to take a break. Our wig code green with me is the honorable Dennis Suzuki factory authorized rep for Strata International back in a moment. Welcome to Sister Power. I'm your host, Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, where we motivate, educate, empower and inspire all women. We are live here every other Thursday at 4 p.m. and we welcome you to join us here at Sister Power. Aloha and thank you. Aloha. I want to invite all of you to talk story with John Wahee every other Monday here at Think Tech Hawaii. And we have special guests like Professor Colin Moore from the University of Hawaii who joins us from time to time to talk about the political happenings in this state. Please join us every other Monday. Aloha. Good afternoon again, Howard Wigg. Code green Hawaii, Think Tech Hawaii. The honorable Dennis Suzuki is with me and we've been talking about what he reps and so far we've looked at high end structures. Let's go, Mr. Suzuki, to affordable housing because almost every day we're asking ourselves how to get affordable in a place like Hawaii. Now here's an example of affordable housing. Nothing very fancy, but I don't think the homeless people on the street want anything very fancy. They just want a nice roof over their head. So what is this home all about? Well, first of all, that building is made out of the core of our product. And what it is is that we can bring it in like that if you like or we can have fast assembly. You know, we come out all in pieces and we can cut it to size. We have the equipment cutter and everything and required no heavy equipment to do this. Very lightweight, safe construction for unskilled workers, two parts making a simple logistics, inexpensive to build while staying extremely durable and safe because of our weather. And let's look at the slide after that because it's kind of similar. Here are examples of affordable housing under construction and I don't see any heavy equipment floating around there. And again, I like the fact that the exteriors are white or cream colored because that is exactly what we need. That's right. Not clack, not any dark colors. If you're going to, the fact that you're retarding the sun's heat from getting into the building means that you need little or no air conditioning, very often just a ceiling fan, we'll do it. And that's a great way, number one, to decrease your construction cost, number two, to get your utility cost monthly down to just about zero. So let's look at the next slide then. Okay, now as I mentioned, you can direct the factory, not you, but the architect or contractor can direct the factory to build to such and such specs and it can be sized such that you can get, is this the whole home? It looks like maybe a quarter of a house. You put them all together. And it can come in like this on maybe we can do it to maybe a barge company, break it in, maybe 50 of them one time and assemble maybe during the weekend, you know, you can do it once the floor is paved with concrete. So it would just be the barge or the boat would pull in to the pier, the trucks would line up and offload these components right at the pier onto the truck, off the truck goes to the building site. And that, oh yeah, here's, well this looks like, oh yeah, here it is, lifting that component and getting it right onto the site. So do you think that the building on the right is maybe several of these types of components? Yes, it's about maybe eight of them put together. And as you said they're, because they're so rugged that they are resilient against say hurricanes, earthquakes, whatever Mother Nature might throw at them. Oh and termites. Termites, oh I was surprised. And you showed me some specs earlier. These can be built at an estimated cost of $135 a square foot. Now that does not include the electrical hookup or the plumbing hookup. Right, nor the foundation, nor the land. Oh yeah, about $135 per square foot in Hawaii is pretty gosh darned inexpensive shall we say. We often see estimates double that and even close to triple that on a per square foot basis. And we're looking for affordable housing for goodness sakes. And our material is that we use are all eco-friendly. And if you burn the foam, yeah, it doesn't cause black smoke. It's already treated and what we do is that we can recycle them if you like, you know. But we're trying to make so that we don't have to get rid of all our trees. We leave it there for Mother Nature for a future generation. And it looks like there's little or no metal involved. There's no metal. I served on a PhD evaluation committee at UH Architects just recently and the thesis of the student was to take as many local materials as possible and use them in the construction of homes and buildings. And he certainly came up with modular construction also. Yeah. Any wood that we get has to come from the mainland. Any metal we get has to come from, usually, it's Asia. But we can use, I believe, some local materials here. Yeah. I'm sure it can be done. But the thing is very, how you can say, it's bonded together to make a stronger finished product so it doesn't fall apart. In other words, on the end, it's all bonded. Homes, like I say, last 400 years for superior traditional manufacturing homes. And we can do this right away by doing low income housing. And all we need to do is get a design and we can get a price, whoever is on the program. And people will love it inside and it's cool. Yeah. It has fans. You can put fans and blowers and the thing is that people will love it in the hot sun. Yeah. Yeah. You're keeping that hot sun out. When you mentioned 100 years, another thing that we always look for these days is what's called resource efficiency. Number one, the materials that we're building with here are energy or resource friendly, eco-friendly. And number two, they're not going to fall apart after 30 years. We can just do the refinish and paint it and the thing will be up there. And as we noted also, salt water resistant because a lot of our problems come from the salt air, even away from the coast from salt air penetrating. Yeah. Let's look at the next slide here. Ooh, what is a float house? The float house is built on the water. As you can see it from the picture, it has, you can have the foam with concrete that is in the water. Of course, the bottom part is concrete holding up the building, but this makes it very warm and cool and very exotic for having a float house. And people love it, especially people who live close to a river or they want to put something, put water around them, it will work. And again, I bring back that word resiliency, we're finding more and more and the insurance companies are really getting concerned about this. People love to live near to bodies of water, but guess what's happening? Those bodies of water are going up and up and up as the glaciers melt. We've got no problem on that. They will float. This is like a surfboard. We can see this already on the North Shore, out in the country area, where sometimes our Cam Highway is getting washed out. And the homes right near to there, if they're halfway new, they're up on stilts already. But in this case, you have your kind of built-in stilts because your foundation is number one raised, and number two, it's resilient, it's resistant to the forces of even saltwater. We also can build fence to protect from the wave from coming in, and this form will stand up to the wave, because if we can stand up to 260 mile an hour wind, 260, it can stand the wind and the rain and the wave. I was in Guam a few years ago, and they were in the town area, there were a lot of concrete slabs where there used to be buildings. And I said, what happened here? They said, not long ago we had a typhoon, they have typhoons over there, with 183 mile an hour gusts. And even though Guam's buildings are, they know the typhoon is coming, they still couldn't build strong enough. So what we need to do is that, like I would go to Japan or the Philippines, I find out they're building close to the water. I told them, like Hawaii, we should sail away from the water, put up recreation area, gym area, football field, whatever we want, and we should live in the mountain, on the mountain, like Hong Kong. Or like Hilo. After the 1946 tsunami, they just made that coastal area, they just made it into parkland. And we can build the houses onto the mountain, we will not fall down, we will get it going, and people will be much happier. And we should save all the agriculture land, and build affordable housing or middle income houses, or whatever you want to do. Well, what I like about this is you are emphasizing affordable. And one big reason why you and I and everybody else see all these people being homeless is they have, they're not bums from the mainland, these are local people who have been priced out of their homes, just can't afford it. It can, our program is very affordable and very competitive. And we like to go in and help people like them, as well as everybody else. But we need to get our product in. I haven't talked too much in Hawaii about this more abroad that I go, I fly out. But we need to get this stuff out on the market and save our people. And maybe, not maybe, we should get them to work for us too, to build their own house, we just provide the material, and this can be done. Yeah, yeah. And under supervision so that it's a very, very nice, safe, secure home also. Right. Yeah, yeah. So Mr. Dennis Suzuki, you said you like to help Hawaii. And I think that we have illustrated this very, very, very nicely. Oh, and I should say disclaimer, neither I nor the state of Hawaii nor the state of Hawaii are authorizing or endorsing these strata products. We are here strictly for an informational session. But we wish you all the best in your endeavor and look forward to reading about you in the paper as you supply affordable housing. Thank you very much for inviting. It's been a while since I've been trying to get people to listen to all the products that I have that I sell. But my job is to make sure when we have equipment and systems, it has to meet Hawaii's climate and weather and everything. And not just say, I'm going to build a road, I'm going to do this. And it doesn't work like that. And when we spend the money, we have to make sure we have the longevity of a good, long living house for our children's children. Well, I chair the Energy Efficiency Committee for the Hawaii Building Code Council, and I wish you there 100%. And just about everybody I know is with, cheers your dream. Thank you so much. A resource efficient, energy efficient Hawaii. On that very, very cheery note, we bid farewell to Dennis Suzuki and our beloved audience, Howard Wigg, Code Green. See you next time.


that these two issues came together. It's, to me, it's impossible to talk about anything related to horizontality or democracy without taking care of feminist questions. And, of course, you know we live in a patriarchal society where certain men at least have privilege and the point is that this is not only happening in institutional settings or organizations that don't think about these issues, but also in the political left and probably also in your environments, the environments where you were, even in environments that call themselves feminist spaces. And at the same time, feminism seems to be gaining momentum in the last few years with different projects and different projects and public discourse. It seems that the topic is becoming more relevant. So it's a good time to analyze how these two things, so especially the political left and feminism come together. And I'd like to start with a quote by a colleague in Argentina. She's part of the municipalist platform in Rosario, in one of the cities there. And the reflections she shared with me a few months ago is that in the midst of this feminist revolution, we as an organization, her organization, need to make a decision about whether our projects and organizations let themselves be permeated by this revolution or if they try to hold it back and suppress it. And so it's, I think it's happening in many places that there's this reflection about the topic. So I will shortly explain what we mean by feminization of politics and give a general overview of the issue. And then in their handout, you have a really long and boring list of things, reflections and tools. This is the result of a long process of work as a network that we've been doing with many municipalist organizations across Europe. And then we produced a report with some colleagues from Madrid about the topic and doing interviews to women working in municipalist organizations in different parts of the world, also outside Europe. So this is a result of a collective reflection about the topic and it's an ongoing reflection. So it's not meant to be like a closed list of issues or tools or anything but I thought it would be interesting for you to have it if you're interested. Sometimes it's good to have big options and material to engage in further reflection and work. So we don't need to go through all that. We can go through some things if you like maybe some topics are more interesting for you than others. But yeah, I don't know. We thought that maybe the dynamic of the session also could adapt to how you're feeling about the topic and what you find most interesting. So if it's okay, I will start with sharing a few ideas about what is feminism in relation to feminizing politics. And normally when people talk about feminizing politics they tend to think about female politicians and probably feminist policies which are of course very, very important. But when we talk about the feminization of politics we are of course considering that but mainly focusing on changing structures, ways of doing politics, relationships, languages, times, priorities and things like that. So the work that we've been doing with these organizations is mainly a reflection, an internal reflection within those organizations about how they relate with each other, how they decide together, how they perceive their work and things like that. Some of their reflections of course apply to these kinds of organizations which most of them are somehow engaged with local electoral politics and some might apply to other contexts, some might not, but the conclusions might be interesting anyway. So or not, we'll see. So it's important to stress that feminizing politics doesn't mean simply having more women in charge of things and having fewer men which is also important because politics is still very masculineized in that sense. But it's not that. And it's not about feminine ways either. It's not about acting like women or it's not about being nicer about things that we associate with feminine ways in the world. It's not about that either. And it's not a thing for women. It's something that not only should be everyone's concern but it's also something that affects everyone's feeling or ability to feel at home in political projects because it's not doing things in a particular way also puts men with privilege in a difficult position in many occasions. So it's something that is important for everyone. Although of course these topics are usually interesting for women and women are the ones who attend events when we talk about these things and they meet and they organize and things like that. But we still think it's something that should involve everyone. And in addition to that, talking about men and women here is an oversimplification. We do this because of course depending on the context that is perhaps the most urgent concern but the approach towards these topics should be intersectionality actually. The people are crossed by different kinds of oppression and privilege like class, race, the fact that you're migrated, that you are disabled or many other factors and we shouldn't forget but we are talking about privilege in society and not simply about male privilege. It's not about, mainly it's not this liberal feminist view that privileged women should have more access to spaces that all the privileged men can access. So that is also important. But that said, it's still important to stress that the fact that we consider the situation of privileged men is urgent. And to certain extent the things that we've been discussing assume that on many occasions it is men the ones who should adapt to the ways of doing that make women feel more comfortable with. It doesn't mean again adopting feminine ways of being in the world but it means leaving certain really masculine ways of doing. So even if it's not about men and women this dimension is still relevant. Why should everyone adapt to masculine ways of doing and not men reflecting on their privilege and their ways of doing and adapting to other people's ways of doing. So that's also part of the approach. And why this is important because it's fair for privileged people to adapt to other ways of doing but also because there's some ways of doing that are more common amongst women and people who belong to non-privileged groups that are more valuable in themselves. There's lots of studies that show that, I don't know, tendency towards cooperation, care, diversity are more common amongst non-privileged men. So it means taking a stance on these issues because of who is in practice acting in a certain way and not in another. And I'm a bit theoretical now but there's also, it's important also to stress that we don't understand gender in a binary way where there's men and women. This is, of course, we think this is a continuum. There's many possibilities in between and but it's an oversimplification. So I asked you to keep that in mind when I say women. We don't really mean that. And it's also important to say that feminism as such is, I mean it's difficult to say that feminism is one thing. Of course, most of you know that but there's different kinds of feminism that are more useful for different kinds of people. So that's also part of the approach and we are not really taking a position in that regard but still we are rejecting some styles of feminism. In particular, there's liberal feminism that simply wants to have more women in power positions and encourage women to behave like men and to become successful and privileged as well because this forgets that most of the women who don't have that privilege will never be able to do that and it's not really assessing the roots of privilege in our societies which is not the fact that men, certain men have this access to certain positions but the ways that we behave that give values to certain ways of doing and not to others. And the final point I guess would be that we understand and we want in every project feminism to become a cross cutting issue. It's not something that belongs to groups of women who are obsessed with this and trying to resist and I mean of course that is important but it should be something that should cross through all the things which is really complicated because it's hard to keep that on the agenda all the time because in every, probably in every environment there's always bigger priorities but we would like feminism to be something that everyone, I was saying that before but that everyone considers in everything we are doing and not simply something that a group of people is in charge of and they make proposals about these issues which is usually the case in most organizations and groups. And then for you to have an idea of why we are addressing this topic in as I was mentioning before in the municipalist environment. So municipalism is connected to, so very broadly understood, it's connected to building power, political power from where people actually live in cities, towns, neighborhoods and where people actually interact with each other and instead of going for for instance states and bigger levels of government. There's many reasons for that, we could talk at some point about that but I just wanted to make clear that these are the kinds of organizations that we've been working with, local organizations that sometimes run for elections at the local level, sometimes they don't but in every case there's an understanding of how building power from the local level should engage both the local public institutions, social movements and city sense in different kinds of collectives in a way that allows people to build political power that can have many meanings but I think it's enough for this and it also, so we think there's a close relationship and a good fit between feminism and municipalism and this perhaps for many other reasons but mainly because municipalism is looking at how politics is done and in that way feminism is really important, it's not simply about winning local institutions and being the one who is in charge, it's about changing the way we relate with each other, getting rid of the old traditional ways of doing politics in traditional political parties even in the left and especially in the left in our many occasions, like really vertical and big organizations that have a theory of what's going on and what's wrong and try to push that agenda forward in many cases failing in doing so but being right in what needs to be done and so municipalism aims at changing that so that's why feminism is a good ally and on the other hand because feminizing politics is easier to do if you work in smaller, at a small scale where people actually live, where there's more space for experimenting, for trying out new stuff, for doing things differently, it's really hard to build an organization that works in a feminist way if you have a national political party, like a big organization where people don't even have time to share their work together so yeah, that's why we connected these two things. Yeah, so that's the broad context of this work and then there's, as you can see in the sheet, there's what we've been doing is trying to identify dimensions of the feminization of politics and there's probably more, but these are the ones that have come out so far. These are gender balance, it's the first one and it means not only achieving more equality in positions of responsibility, visibility and things like that, but also distributing, internally distributing visibility, responsibility, decision making power, care responsibilities and things like that within groups. So it doesn't simply mean having, I don't know, the same amount of women in physical positions, but also for people who speak in public or representatives or things like that. Well, we can talk about that more in a minute. I'll go through all of those dimensions. So the second one is power. So how can power be built or understood in a feminist way? There's lots of discussions about this, like outside this domain, like what does power mean from a feminist perspective? And we mainly connect, we've been trying to connect the same of building power in a feminist way with cooperation as an alternative to building power through confrontation and in position on others, over others. So that's the second issue. The third one is leadership, like how, of course there's also a lot of work that has been done around feminist ways of leading and we are trying to depart from this traditional idea of leaders being the strong ones, the ones that make decisions over others, it's really closely connected to how we understand power, but there's more about leadership. And yeah, we can say more about that. But yeah, that's another point. Then the fourth point is care. And as Steve was mentioning before, care is not simply about considering the fact that some of us have children or animals that depend on us or other people, like old people that for some reason depend on us or different kinds of care responsibilities, but it's also about how we can make sure that care is part, is a consideration that is part of our relationships with our peers that we take care of each other in everything we do and also that care becomes part of the political agenda. It's not simply about being nicer, as I was saying before, but that the issue itself is part of the aims and practices of any project. And the third dimension of care is self-care. Sometimes there's things that no one can do for us, even if we get support. So I don't know you, but I can imagine that for most of you, even if the context is really different, there is a lot of overburden and stress and burnout sometimes in the things we do. So that's another important dimension connected to care. Then the fifth element is participation and democracy. And by that, we don't, I mean, of course, in political, let's say, organizations, this is more clear, but I think it's really one for any kind of group, any kind of group, where decisions needs to be made, like who decides? And are groups of decisions self-governed or are some people deciding for others? So that's the key point here. Of course, again, it's closely, intimately connected to the other dimensions. And it's never really, it's never easy to separate those dimensions from each other because they reinforce each other, but still it makes sense to separate them. And then the sixth point is diversity and intersectionality. As I said at the beginning, this is part of the general approach, but there are some things that are specific, and we thought it was interesting to address those issues as a separate point. Because it should be, although it should be a cross-cutting issue, like feminism within organizations, sometimes it's important to actually take a step back and see how you're doing in terms of addressing intersectional forms of oppression within your group. So, yeah, so that's it. Sorry, I didn't understand what you said in the beginning. I, well, I said a little bit about this before, but mainly when we, from the point of view of feminism, when we focus on privilege, it's impossible to simply distinguish use gender as a criterion to determine where privileges are. It's not only men, it's certain type of men, and it's certain type of women. Of course, ignoring the fact that women and men are like a problematic distinction. But every person is crossed by different, I mean, is in different situations in terms of class educational background, race, abilities, and I know many, many other factors. Is that not the word for diversity? No, but it's not diversity, yes.  If you're a woman of a working class and disabled, it's different again. It's that intersection, it's that cross-cutting. Yeah, you're subjected to different layers of oppression and you're lacking different kinds of privileges that other people have. If I'm a white woman with a certain educational background, for instance, of course I can say some men hold privilege in relation to me in some circumstances, but I'm still privileges compared to other people in other dimensions. So if the point is not simply, as I was saying before, to put women into positions of traditional power and we are addressing privileges, it's not enough to simply talk about gender. It's important to take all those considerations into account and also because in practice, the kinds of things we can do to address those privileges are different once we consider the different situations in which people are and the kinds of oppression that they are subjected to. So how to address these topics is you need different answers for different questions. And of course we are aware that this project, this study has been mainly focusing on gender issues, but still these other, and we think it's fine because some of the things that we are addressing are actually able to change structures and ways of doing that will benefit everyone and not only women and not only equalizing the situation between men and women because once you start addressing care or decision making, the distribution of decision making power or leadership, this will start affecting different kinds of groups in different ways. But still, there's some things that you won't achieve if you don't address that topic as a particular topic. So that's more or less. I'm not, I'm not sure I'm being accurate, but. And by the way, I'm happy to please interact with me if anything doesn't make sense or whatever. So thank you for the question. And then the final topic is non-violence and here, well maybe we are addressing different kinds of violence, much violence that happens within most groups because of how we're used to relating with each other. So, and by violence we don't mean like physical violence necessarily, but also verbal violence, psychological violence, environmental violence, things that make certain people feel pushed out of certain spaces or environments. So, yeah, I'm not sure how, so this is like the first description of all these topics. I was thinking maybe it would make sense to try to, because we have one hour, yeah. So in order to make this more interactive and useful, I thought it might be interesting to maybe, well first, if you have any question, we can talk about it. And I feel, and I also feel happy if anyone has an answer for those questions, but then maybe, since one hour is a lot of time, but not that much, maybe we could choose together some of those topics and reflect on those topics more deeply. And I was also thinking maybe we can leave some time for you to talk with the person you have next to you about, so before we choose the topics about a short conversation about what's relevant to you from all these topics and maybe make a proposal together with the person right next to you, would that make sense? Or do you have any other suggestions of what you would like to do? So the proposal would be the questions, then talking to the person next to you and identifying what's interesting for you, and then sharing it and deciding together which maybe two or three topics that we can address together. Would that make sense? Yeah. Well it feels like also if you address one, you address all of them in some way, shape or form. There's a crossing. Yes. There's a crossing when it happens. Yes, yes, there is. So, yeah. Any questions or comments first? Yeah, nice. Question, it's what was the process in which this document or these notions of principles of feminization of politics were arrived at? So first, there was a first, so it's actually a connection of different projects, but the first one was through the, I don't know if you've heard of the Fearless Cities Network, is a network of informal, maybe not even a network of municipal platforms in different places. And we created a group with representatives of different organizations where we started reflecting together about these issues internally and sharing it with the group. And we met a few times. We organized all the topics that came out and we came out with a list of categories within that group. And then after that, some of the people involved in that project started this new phase of interviewing people in different contexts. So the first project was within Europe and then we started interviewing people from those organizations but also outside those organizations. So it was, and the categories changed a few times. Actually at the beginning, we had like more than 10, maybe like 15 categories and we organized them into fewer categories. And as I said at the beginning, it's not fixed. It's just a working division of topics. And Lara, there's a book now in English on Fearless Cities. Yes, it's been translated to English. Which is a fantastic book. Yeah, it's a collection of really short pieces about public policies and also about organizational issues, sharing the experiences of different municipal organizations in many places. Yeah. And Miki. Yeah. I have a question here about the intersectionality. And of course, we know that within the movement recently there have been problematics in those intersections, especially around race. And I think the biggest complaint is being, people of color in particular, is being about how their stories and dialogue is ignored. So I guess my question to you is, you've talked about intersectionality and I was really refreshed to see that this is part of your discourse. But what do you do? I'm just trying to be practical. What are you doing to ensure that that dials? I mean, a lot of these communities feel, they've sort of been let down, they've sort of been ignored. So it should be interesting to know what your pictures are around there. Yeah, it's a really good point. I must say that although this is part of the agenda, for most municipal organizations, before we started talking about it, it wasn't even an issue. Most of them didn't even consider that to be a relevant topic. Because, not to justify, but to explain what the context is, we're working with organizations that work in very different political contexts from South Africa or Brazil, for instance, where this is of course an issue that they have, they've been working a lot, they talk about it, like everyone knows what we're talking about and things like that. But then, in other places, like, for instance, some, I don't want to point at anyone, but in some regions, these topics are not, not, well, no, but they're not part of the agenda. In some places, for instance, gender diversity is an issue and LGTB is one of those dimensions that they consider not only gender understood in a binary way and also class, but then not race. So, yeah, the contexts are really different and it is probably, together with non-violence, I would say it's probably the two issues that we are finding harder to address. Perhaps the fact of non-violence is quite surprising because it's quite obvious, but in practice, most organizations hadn't engaged in any reflection about those issues before. So, yeah, I agree. I mean, I can only say, I agree. I mean, there still needs to be more work on those dimensions. But have you seen any practice that sort of, it's probably uncomfortable. So, have you seen a practice where people are really pushing up, pushing to pass that uncomfortable space so the ones that are looking at it, it's the sort of really examples of good practice that you've gone across. Yeah, the case of, well, perhaps if, well, I don't know. I'm hesitant here because I'm not sure if this is one of the topics that we want to address, but okay, that's great. So, in practice, for instance, the case of Belo Horizonte is, we have a municipal platform there that they have this crazy way of organizing, well, crazy. They have what they call a collective mandate where there's people running for elections. They have representatives, but there's a big group of, it was 40 people. I'm not sure how many there are now. People who come from social movements and different kinds of groups who are actually the real decision makers. It's not the representatives. The ones who are presenting projects or things like that, but it's this collective that is in charge, right? And for them, of course, in the context where they live, there's three main categories that they consider for everything they do. And it's hard to say, well, tools, because for them, it's really natural. The fact that they have discussed this and the fact that they are, I don't know how to put it, that it's part of their, I'm getting into trouble here, because maybe they have already addressed the issue and it's less difficult for them to find ways of addressing it. But they consider gender, race, and sexual diversity as criteria for everything they do. And for the representatives they choose, they simply cannot ignore those different criteria when doing anything. So I guess, so there's some things that you can find in the sheet, but I guess what the strategy for addressing these topics has been, and now I'm also talking about my experience in Barcelona, has been to, especially in situations where there's no work on those issues, to generate, to create a group that will focus on those issues in particular, even though it needs to be a cross-cutting issue, it has proved to be useless if there's no people who have the specific responsibility of taking care of those topics. So in many cases there's been, people have created these groups to focus on this kind of work, and these groups have been engaging with organizations that have more experience with different kinds of groups. And here the key is, of course, to ask people from these different groups what they need and what they expect instead of taking the lead in going, going for them and asking them to participate. And actually what has been the conclusion in many cases is that when you reach out to people and ask them simply to participate, it doesn't work. And for instance, in the case of Barcelona and Comú, the experience was that people who were migrated or, well, especially migrants, I would say, they don't come to any kind of assembly-like activity. They're simply not interested. Our diagnosis is that perhaps the kinds of dynamics that are happening there are hostile for those people, and that's why I do think. So my English is, sometimes. So there's been a trial and error process of asking people what kinds of things they are interested in doing and what kind of engagement they want to have. And for instance, might sound strange, but the best examples of including different kinds of groups have been related to concrete actions like campaigning and, for instance, the door-to-door campaign that we did in the beginning of the year was a kind of activity that everyone was engaged in. Like, it was a really diverse group of people that wanted to do that. But then when there's decision-making and assembly-like spaces, they're just not interested. And perhaps the next step is to reflect on why, when it comes to decision-making, there's certain people who don't want to be part of that, probably because they feel that they have no say or that their views, the way they approach the topics and the dynamics are not appealing for them. So I think, I mean, there's more challenges than answers at this point, I feel, for most organizations, not for the ones that I was mentioning before, like this platform in South Africa and the one in Brazil. Could I just ask you something? Yeah. What do you talk about the one in the horizon? You should talk about Gabines, do you want to? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they actually call themselves, you need to see, I don't remember now, anti-racist, municipalist, political project.  I mean, they put it like in the very title of their project. Yeah, they have one member in the national parliament, one member in the state parliament and two members in the city parliament. Yeah. Yeah.  I mean, it's all of them are women. It's like, for them, it's like normal stuff. And in the other organizations that we are working with, the visible faces are in most cases men and the people who are working on these topics are in the very margins of the organization. So I guess, going back to what you were saying, I guess that both in the case of non-violence and intersectionality, I think it's the poorest part of, I mean, there's little to share at this point and more to learn, I think. Because there's, I mean, I don't know, it's just the conversations are just starting. But. I think it's important to continue them. Because I think when you feel like you're not being part of something, it's not that I don't mean, they're interesting, it's that they think that there's no representation in their voice. Yeah. So, all of you can feel like they're in the room equaling. Totally. But it's that sort of thing. I just think the key thing that I've learned over the years is you just got to keep that dialogue going and then you got to keep it going. So if people drop off, why do they drop off? How do you get them back in? It might be other ways. It might be that they're all going to work it and like, terrible or something. It could be some very simple reasons, but it's just really interesting and how you keep it going, because it comes up all sides. Yeah, and keep the conversation open, allowing those people to take the lead as well. And not thinking that you have the answer. I think it's really hard. I mean, I must say it's one of the dimensions where I feel more powerless in order to think about what to do personally. Because it's not my duty. But yeah, not totally. But do you know that in Barcelona, for example, so migrants groups have been organizing in an horizontal way and don't feel appeal at all by the politics of a woman. You know this encounter in Jaida? You don't know about that. So I think it has been the most successful happening in this area. And I think it will allow around 500 people meeting, trying to organize themselves, because they don't feel appeal by the government. Yeah. And they want power. Yeah, I mean, it's different if we want, if you talk about the local government and organizations, because the political party did have, I mean, it's not interesting for everyone, but did have, like many, it's engaged in a permanent dialogue with different kinds of organizations and groups. But still, it's been really hard to. This meeting has been organized by women. They were appealing all kind of general notifications but related to care and politics. Wonderful. Now, it's an impression. I just want to quickly share intersectional approach in feminist. And I live and work in Russia under very strict conditions of patriarchy. And feminist communities and work is actually displayed in all types of, all points of view. And it's, we have known like the circle of intersectional feminist is very small. And still, we have to work and make changes all together and find that one language. And it's very, very much compliant, even within the feminist discourse in one seat. And, yeah, I think that was my point because I'm too shy to speak publicly. But, yeah, that's, yeah, I'm always thinking how to find that and how to build that, let's say, sisterhood with those who are not agree with, even within the whole discourse, if we take care of them, how to be closer to maybe colleagues from countries where it's more developed or common. I'm talking from Russia, but I can also affect organizations. For instance, there was a gap between those who had a formal position, like city councillors and those who didn't, when it came to having collective debates internally, things like that. But at the same time, the legitimacy of the work these people were doing came from this horizontal media organization. And so I think that's more or less connected to what you were saying, right? So you're not able to permeate those spaces with new practices, but at the same time, they are legitimized by the work that we are doing outside. And it's bad, but it's much better than nothing. So at least there's that. And then there's another issue. No, of course. I mean, yeah, yeah. And this tension, it can become a productive one as well. I mean, at least that's how we are understanding and many organizations are understanding this process of being outside, being inside, and not, I mean, and having productive conflicts. And also with social movements that at some point felt that their friends were in the city council, but they still had demands that were not going to be met by the new city council. And things like that. And so this, of course, it's difficult to talk about these things without considering how these other structures that you work with work themselves. And one of the aims of municipalism was to go into institutions to transform them. But it's really what you can actually do. It's really nothing.  It's difficult. There's resistance. There's people working there. And it's not that easy. So I don't know. I think that's, I mean, it's difficult. I don't know. But there's productive tensions that can be found in those experiences, I think. But then there's this other issue of scale, right? It's not simply about different kinds of environments, but also scale, like working with places where you can see people and work with people, and then scaling up to achieve greater things. For instance, in the case of many municipalist platforms, they got involved into regional or national politics. In some cases, they even presented candidates for the European parliament and things like that. And the experience was also very frustrating. Once you start scaling up, the few things that you are doing well start to get lost along the way. And I think it's one of the greatest challenges for everything we do, right? I mean, how to stay true but not irrelevant. And it's really difficult. And when you introduced yourself, you mentioned working with a network, for instance. And my view is that one of them might sound a bit obvious, but one of the answers might come from trying other kinds of articulations that are not necessarily mean scaling up, but working as networks. Of course, there's lots of people doing work in how to work as a network and the challenges that implies and things like that. But I think it necessarily needs to be in the feminist agenda. And I feel it hasn't been addressed that much. We don't really know that much about how working as a network is connected to feminism. And if you do know things about experiences or work around this, please let me know. But I feel it's one of the things that would be interesting to defend more, that trying to become relevant and visible not through growing up or scaling up, but through scaling out and interacting with others. And I think this applies to political organizations, but also other kinds of projects. How to support it. Not only because you can support each other, the things like that, but also to gain more visibility, to gain more, I don't know. Like a terrorist network. Yeah. Exactly. Like a terrorist network. I don't know. Too much. Too much. Yeah. I don't really understand. I very much resonate with the dilemma on how you maintain meaning, but still relevant. And how you try to go into these institutions that still have the power. And I get an answer from you that you say that you should rather get the visibility, maybe, and the relevance through mass, through being more in networks. But I wonder then, are we building parallel structures to the existing ones that anyway now take all the resources? And how to deal with that? I still have this dilemma, how you deal with the fact that you still have all these structures. They have so much power, and most of the resources are there. And all this effort that we would make would not, in a reasonable time, come to the results. That would mean that the people that need resources would have access to them. How I see it, the only alternative is to pull again into patriarchal ways of doing. If you want to get power fast and impact, like efficient and impact, where the power really is, and blah, blah. I'm not saying that it will necessarily be successful, but at least this is the reasoning behind some of the experiments happening in different places. Like, OK, we should do things as they have been done, because it works. I think it's a really difficult question. But again, I'm speaking from the municipal perspective, I think part of the municipalist approaches to, at the same time, relating to institutions that have this kind of formal power. Of course, these are not multinationals, and they don't have a real power. But they have some resources and power that civil society doesn't have. But relating to local governments is less dangerous than relating to other kinds of institutions, and then working as a network in order to spread geographically and things like that can be combined, and also local governments can work as networks instead of relying on higher levels of government and things like that. I mean, I'm using this example because it's the one I know, but I feel it might apply to other kinds of relationship with cultural institutions, funders, and many other kinds of environments. But I don't think there's an answer. I have no idea. It's also not a question, but it's an oracle question, of course. Yesterday, we unblocked some of us, but we discussed the Japanese revolution. I think if intersectional feminism, something opposite the revolution, or this is the other way to make the revolution, I don't know. Do you want to explain why? I don't mean the exact revolution independently, but Lauren, she's not here. She focused on feminist influence, I would say, on it, or male participation in it, because it was in the presentation. It was not known here that it's feminist or not. It was about more gender roles. And at the end, I thought it was a great comment that, OK, revolution can be peaceful, but it could lead for the very violent processes of course. And I think that intersectional feminism could be the key for a new society, a new type of society. But as I mentioned, in Russia, it's very small circle. And as I see, intersectional feminism avoids any violence and revolution, and even if it's peaceful, it could lead to violence, of course, because people all together against, for example, government, but it was an act. It's not a question. Yeah, I wonder to what extent that is contextual or is it the case for every intersectional feminist? It's a good question. I don't know. I don't know that much about what the specific context are. I don't know. OK, but it's more connected with the previous plot. It's also rhetoric questions rather next challenge I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about the overproduction as a kind of thing, which is also against feminization, because I'm working mostly in a theater. And with my organization, we try to create the conditions of equal place to work, to make art, and make social projects. But I'm working quite often with institutions, public institutions, mostly theaters and galleries. And for me, the question all the time is how to, because it's my experience as well, how to get rid of this primitive overproduction when, for example, many, many people, so directors, and people who are in charge of the institutions declare the same values as feminization, equality, et cetera. But at the end of the day, when it comes to realization, what is the focus is on the effect. And in this kind of overproduction mode and speed of work, it turns out that there is no place for care, for justice, for these all values we have in declarations. So for me, it's really painful because it's kind of experience of fiction, also in our bubble. And the question is how to deal with it. Of course, there is no simple answer, and probably the way is to create other structures, experimental one, and I believe in that. But at the same time, when we have institutions, which is big and have resources and all the things we are talking about, and also somehow is a good environment to create because of the infrastructure and all things which are prepared to do the things. And at the same time, it's so difficult to, let's say, change these default settings, which are concentrated on overproduction. So I'm thinking also about this aspect of neoliberal capitalistic way of producing in art. It's really kind of hidden, maybe even visible, but so strong that these settings are so strong that it's not easy to deal with it and to make feminization not only in declarations and in this level of philosophy. So it makes me sad, so I'd like to share with you this. If I may just react to that because we also have kind of similar experiences, both of us. And the same but also in different institutions. But I think it's also related not only to the overproduction of course, but I think it's also related to the way how the artwork is being perceived. In many institutions we were working with, our experience was always the result that was really the criteria to evaluate the work of the institution. And what we have been trying to do in one of the institutions are still trying to, in one of the city theaters in Warsaw, is to shift the mindset in a way of the institution of its directors from the result to the way how it is done and from the perception of the art as a tool that produces artworks to the perception of the art as a social practice that you not only produce art, but you first and foremost produce the social relationships. And therefore, but then it's a really complex process because it also then requires a change of the way how the institution is being evaluated and so on and so forth. So it's complex quite. Absolutely, but again, it's extremely frustrating. But on the other hand, I totally get your point. If we don't try, we may fail in that particular institution. But if we don't try this to implement this change, if we don't raise these questions, then they will not be addressed. So if I can add something to that, it's also, I think we're talking about that, that it's also connected with perceiving the role of artists and the role of art in the society, when especially in theater, I think it's not only in Poland, there's kind of the traditional way of perceiving, for example, directors, especially male director, but director is that it's person who has vision and who has the right to execute things. So it's a way of, so I think that this change we need, it's really in each level and it's really, probably it's also, for sure, it's also connected with artistic education in the way we are doing that and the Assas Marta said perceiving art as the laboratory of relations as well, not only a way to producing stuff, things. So, yeah, it's just our challenge. But those conversations are having a direct level, like we have the, we're working towards our next business and we have two columns, everything we're doing, which is what we do and how we do it and we give measurables and deliverables on each of those things. And they may not be quantifiable in terms of like output or numbers, but they have to be quantifiable and then team speaks more equally at a staff meeting would be a milestone, all right? Right. So these are some of those things that's like, it's not maybe the way we wanna work because it's still answering those like big books, but it's like a way of showing our funders who basically really that business plan is fought or in a way that it's like a tangible piece of work that's happening, like that is the work, the process is the work, okay? The very work that is being done, yeah. Certainly one of my thoughts is to wrap up at a certain point. And typically that comes at a vibrant moment. So apologies for that interjection. Is there anything that you would like to push into the space there as a last final work before you move to Pennsylvania? No, you have my email on the sheet. If you feel like, I mean, we didn't do what we suggested, but it's totally fine because we jump from one topic to another, but if you want to, I don't know, not only me, but the group would be in contact with many people who have more resources and tools and could support any of the work that you want to do in this domain. So feel free to contact me and I could, if I can help, I will, and otherwise I will try finding someone who can. Is it possible to email the checklist so we can actually share that more by day, and we're sure if it's all right? Yeah, I have it, I can share. Okay, great. Great, great, fantastic. And also the deeper research that... It will be published soon. I don't know when, probably in the coming month, but yeah, we could also share it. Yes, yes, of course. Is that in English? Yes, yes, yeah. We'll be, we are in the editing process now, but it will come out probably in December. So it's been a great privilege, certainly for me. I thank you very much, Lara, and the rest of the speakers say, express our appreciation. Thank you.


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So this video is going to be filled with some unpopular opinions, but my goal is to help give you all some perspective and hopefully inspire some people along the way. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health. And what I typically do is pull different topics from the YouTube community, try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And before I get started, a big, big, big huge thank you to everybody following me over on Instagram. As a lot of you know, my goal the last few weeks has been to get to 10,000 followers so I can get that swipe up feature, make things easier for me, make things easier for you. And we just hit 7,000 so I greatly appreciate it. If you haven't followed me on Instagram yet, go follow me at the Rewired Soul because as soon as I hit 10,000, I'm gonna start doing some giveaways for some merch, some mental health books and all sorts of cool stuff. All right, but yeah, I wanted to make this video, this video, I'm not sure how long it's gonna be, but it's gonna be a little bit of a story time, but I get a lot of messages and comments saying like, oh Chris, don't burn yourself out. Chris, don't burn yourself out. Now, check it out. I love you guys. Like, something that I try to do, like I know that you're coming from a place of concern and I appreciate that, but YouTuber burnout is something that was pretty big in 2018 and I'm just here to let you know. Don't worry about me. And the goal of this video is to hopefully give you some perspective on my work, how I do my work and hopefully because I know I have other YouTubers who watch my channel now too, I hope it gives them some perspective as well. My goal for this channel is not only to help people with their mental health, but to hopefully motivate and inspire people as well. All right. So anyways, let's get started. A lot of you know, I was a drug addict and alcoholic for nearly 10 years, okay? So I started drinking at about 18 and I got sober on my 27th birthday. So like, I know I have a bunch of recovering addicts and alcoholics who are subscribed to my channel and you know exactly what I'm talking about. That is a full-time job. Like you guys, like being a drug addict and alcoholic is, it's more than a full-time job. It's 24-7. Like, and this isn't a good thing. This is a terrible thing. Like addiction had me in its clutches. Whenever I would wake up, I needed to find a bottle. I needed to find pills. I was trying to get a hold of my dealer and stuff, right? So I was working full-time jobs throughout my addiction. I got fired quite a few times or let go or asked to resign, right? But like to put in perspective for you, like there was one time when I lost a pill in my like high carpeting, I looked for it for three hours, okay? And at the end of this video, I'm going to talk about like my YouTube process, but I just want you to remember that. I have looked for a pill because I was such a fiending drug addict. I looked for it in my carpet for three hours. All right? Like that is insane. So anyways, I got sober when I was 27 years old. I had a year off of work just to focus on myself and my recovery. I was very fortunate in that aspect. A lot of you by the way asked me about my recovery and to share more stories. Like I have an entire playlist where I share a lot of stories about this called Ask an Attic or How to Get Clean and Sober. Go check that out. Or it's all in my book Hope, which is always linked down in the description, okay? But anyways, I got sober at 27 years old after a year.  Okay? So I moved back to Las Vegas and the first job I got, the first job I got was working from 7am to 3pm. And I didn't have a driver's license or a car because messed that up in my addiction. And my job was across town. All right? So I had to take an hour and a half bus ride each way. Okay? So if you do the math, if my job started at 7, then I'd take an hour and a half bus ride. That's why I had to get on the bus at 5.30 in the morning. That meant I was waking up at 4.30 in the morning to get ready to make sure I could hit the bus at 5.30 in the morning. And then guess what? I took an hour and a half bus ride home every single day. I did that five days a week. And I missed like, after working there for almost two years, I think I missed like one or two days of work. All right? So like, put that in perspective real quick. So I was doing that for a long time. And not only was I doing that before all my recovering addicts, like I tell, I tell clients like when I'm working at a drug and alcohol treatment center, like don't give me the excuse that you can't go to meetings because I was doing that, that routine, and I was going to five meetings a week still. All right? While being a father to my son, I had him on the weekends because we split custody. So after that job, I ended up getting the job at the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center. Okay? So by that time, I actually had a car, which is pretty awesome. So I ended up getting the job at the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center. So my position there, a lot of you have asked me, like, what are your credentials? What did you do? My job was an alumni coordinator. So one of my main responsibilities was to be on call, like pretty much 24 seven for everybody who discharged from treatment. So if they were struggling with their addiction or mental health or whatever, they can call me on my cell phone or text me, or I was on social media and they can hit me up and I would talk to them. All right? Some people relapse and I had to get them back in the treatment. That was a 24 seven gig. My work cell phone was on me all the time. All right? So imagine that I was working from nine to five every day, but I had my cell phone on me 24 seven. So there was times I was working before work. There was times I was working after work. All right? Aside from that, I would do events for the clients on the weekends, like once a month. So someday some weeks I was working six days a week. And then while I was at treatment, I was doing groups. I was doing one on one sessions. I was making phone calls. I was talking to people. I was organizing other events. So like I was a busy guy. Now I was still working at the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center when I decided I was going to do a YouTube channel. So check this out. Check this out. So not only was I doing all that stuff, being on a call 24 seven, but I was also not making enough money. So I was doing freelance writing on the side, probably spending about 20 hours a week on average writing for other people just so I can make some extra money. Aside from that, I turned into a pretty much daily YouTuber. Okay?  I was an extremely, extremely busy guy, but not only that, I had my son, my beautiful girlfriend and I Tristan were already dating by then. So I want you to put in perspective how busy I actually was. All right? So now, let's fast forward to where I'm at today.  As a lot of you know, I've written books, you know, I'm active on social media. I'm doing collabs with other people and stuff like that. And I have a lot of stuff planned for 2019, doing podcasts and all that. But I want, I want you guys to know like how I've worked my entire life. So now I'm able, I'm fortunate enough to do this full-time. So think about it. Okay? So the average person, full-time employee is working eight hours a day. Okay? My videos, and you guys see, I do two to three videos a day, most days, my videos take me one to two hours from filming to the end of editing and getting it uploaded. Okay? So one to two hours. So if I do three videos a day, that is six hours of work. So technically, even if I'm pumping out three videos in a day, I'm still working a lot less than some of you. I'm getting off two hours early. All right? Like think about that for a second. So that's why I don't want you guys to worry about me getting burnt out. Like this ain't new, baby. This ain't new. I'm actually getting time off now by doing this. So I've made some videos about like work-life balance as well. And don't worry about that either. So for example, just in the last 24 to 48 hours, my son and I, we went to go see Aquaman. Pretty sweet movie. All right? This, he's been with me most of this week and he's played Spider-Man. Today, we're going to live stream. We're going to play Fortnite together here on my channel. So Tristan and I, Tristan and I, we just binge watched the entire season of Lemony Snickets in about a day.   All right? So, so here's my unpopular opinion. All right? When you guys get worried about me getting burnt out and like, this is, I'm not throwing direct shade at anybody, but like, I think a lot of you have been brainwashed by YouTubers. I think the lack of consistency, I think the lack of content that's been put out. I think when you see somebody like me, who's uploading as frequently as I am, you're worried about me. So when you're seeing other YouTubers who are uploading once a week, once a month, like, I know, I know, like, I have, I have empathy. I trust me. I have empathy. But like, you guys are seeing all these people burning out. And like, I want to be somebody on this platform. Like, I've already had other YouTubers saying like, man, you pump out a lot of content. It makes you want to do more. Good. Good. Like, I know other YouTubers have higher production value. But like, one of the issues is, and I'm wearing my shirt today, a lot of YouTubers think that they're, they're these unique unicorns, right? Nobody understands. Nobody understands the plight of a YouTuber, right? But like, for me, I feel like it would be disrespectful to all of you to be doing this full time and not putting in at least 40 hours a week. You know what I'm saying? So like, I know other YouTubers have higher production value than I do. But you guys, like, if you put in 40 hours a week, if you put in 40 hours a week, I really, it's really hard for me to fathom a YouTuber not putting out one video a week. Like, and that's being lenient. I think most YouTubers could do two videos a week. Like, I'm insane. And not only do I do videos pretty much every day, I do multiple videos. But think about how much slack I'm cutting to people who are doing a lot less. So like, again, I wanted this to be like a well rounded like kind of story time for all of you to understand, like, don't worry about me. Like, I'm used to hard work. I'm used to hustle. Okay, this ain't nothing. After this, Tristan and I, we're going to set up some stuff in the apartment. And again, I'm going to play with Dylan. But I want you guys to all think about that real quick. And if any other YouTubers are watching this, I want you to think about this too. Because something that I talk about often is not often enough is that YouTubers become disconnected from their audience. And, and like, maybe do some videos on it eventually. But I've seen some, some YouTubers on Twitter complaining about some stuff.  You know what I mean? Like, I know some of you, I know some of you are working full time jobs that you hate, right? I know some of you are working full time jobs, some of you are working two jobs, and you have kids. You know what I mean? So like, I feel like I owe it to you guys to put in as much work into this as you're putting in work to the rest of the world. You know what I'm saying? So anyways, anyways, I hope, I hope this gave you some clarity. And again, like, I appreciate all of you who are worried, like, Oh, Chris, don't burn yourself out. Like, I appreciate that. A lot of you asked me, like, do you get enough sleep?  My sleep apnea has gotten better since I've lost some weight.  I don't know what it is. But yeah, I sleep at least, I don't know, six to eight hours a night. I know I should be getting seven to eight, you know, whatever it is. But yeah, you guys, like, the other thing is too, I'm very fortunate. And this is why my videos are also not only to help you to help other you, but to help other YouTubers, like, I love what I do. I absolutely love what I do. Whenever I find something where I can discuss a mental health topic that might be able to help one of you, it it jazzes me up so I can make another video that might be able to help somebody out there. So that's one of the things I have going for me is I absolutely love doing this. All right. But anyways, I hope this gave you some more clarity on my situation. Don't forget to go follow me on Instagram. We're getting so close to 10,000 followers. All right. But anyways, if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because like I just said, I make a ton of videos and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. I've updated this list. So all the names should be accurate on this list wherever it is right here. And the Q&A post is up. So if you have questions and you're a patron, go ahead and ask. All right. Thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time.