Zooming into Safer Brave Space

[UPDATE: The videos of the zoom discussions are now live on the CI@50 website.] Would you like to find safer brave space? I've been developing guidelines for how to do that in my niche Contact Improvisation dance world. I'll be talking about it with other authors in the anthology, Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ … Continue reading Zooming into Safer Brave Space →

Michele Beaulieux: A Clear Voice for Group Accountability

The anthology, Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, features Michele Beaulieux's essay, Getting There from Here: A Road Map for Safer Brave Open Jams," which describes how to create "safer brave spaces" for dance gatherings by using the Beaulieu Test and Assessment to foster consent culture and support community accountability. The editor Ann Cooper Albright called Michele "one of the clearest voices" calling for group accountability in jams.

Published by Oxford: A Road Map for Safer Brave Open Jams

The Lives I Lost in 2023: Carol, Jahmés, Carol, Wally, Fayyad, Oreo, Shedrick, and Erica

Mom’s casket with Tony’s drum. Photo by Jahmés Tony Finlayson, December 2018, at the burial service for my mother, Nancy Metz White Understandably, I have procrastinated writing this post. And as I’ve procrastinated, the list of lives I’ve lost has expanded. This post, which began memorializing a trio of transitions, modeled after the truism that … Continue reading The Lives I Lost in 2023: Carol, Jahmés, Carol, Wally, Fayyad, Oreo, Shedrick, and Erica →

Video! The Foundational Value of Safer Brave Space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1DuS1knv5U Michele Beaulieux presenting on "The Foundational Value of Safer Brave Space" I'm happy to announce my first video about my work on Safer Brave Space! In the video, I explain that the foundation for safer brave space is the value: "respect each other.” I suggest making “take care of yourself,” which is what some … Continue reading Video! The Foundational Value of Safer Brave Space →

On Being in the Footnotes of Famous Feminist Scholars

I was thrilled when the late University of Chicago Prof. Lauren Berlant sent me an email in late 2020 with the subject line: “one more thing: from my book bibliography :-).” The email contained an alphabetical list of publications by authors whose last names began with “B” including several by me! Their book, On the … Continue reading On Being in the Footnotes of Famous Feminist Scholars →

Victim-Survivors Are Doin’ It for Themselves, and That’s a Problem

Jam with Roland: Just Say "No" © 2019 Michele Beaulieux Oil Pastel on Paper Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics famously sang: "Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves." Widely hailed as a feminist anthem of empowerment, I'm now wondering why sisters ended up resorting to doin' it for themselves. Out of necessity, victim-survivors … Continue reading Victim-Survivors Are Doin’ It for Themselves, and That’s a Problem →

My Hand Door Knocking in the New York Times!

My hand shown holding paper in the lower right corner of lower left photo while door knocking in Milwaukee with Haley Hager. After completing some deadlines earlier last week, I turned my head toward the election. Went up to Wisconsin this weekend, my home state swing state, to knock on doors and encourage people to … Continue reading My Hand Door Knocking in the New York Times! →

My Chicago Sun-Times Letter on Fr. Pfleger’s Support

Letter to the editor about the impact of reflexive support for Fr. Pfleger by Michele Beaulieux in Chicago Sun-Times Today, Ocober 24, 2022, the Chicago Sun-Times published my letter to the editor about how the reflexive support for popular Chicago priest, Fr. Michael Pfleger, impacts victim-survivors of sexual violence. St. Sabina parishioners as well as … Continue reading My Chicago Sun-Times Letter on Fr. Pfleger’s Support →