9 episodes
discourse matters... Ms. Gugulethu Lethabo Sihlali
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- Education
Discourse matters is a podcast that facilitates both comfortable and uncomfortable conversations as a reminder that, because you exist what you desire to speak up about matters. Our voices give significance and power to our respective causes, therefore we ought to give ourselves permission to use these voices.
On this podcast we intend to create wealth with wisdom by having conversations that can lead us to ourselves and our power. So grab a seat, get comfortable and let's talk about it!
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Dear diary: unbecoming to become
"Look, we are not unspectacular things.
We've come this far, survived this much.
What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder? What if we stopped being terrified, if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big...."
— Ada Limón -
Rise in love.
We should be thinking more about love and we should certainly be doing more from love. “Everywhere we learn that love is important, and yet we are bombarded by its failure. In the realm of the political, among the religious, in our families, and in our romantic lives, we see little indication that love informs decisions, strengthens our understanding of community, or keeps us together. This bleak picture in no way alters the nature of our longing. We still hope that love will prevail.
We still believe in love's promise.” - bell hooks -
Pulse check: How are you, really?
How are you? “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” -bell hooks
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Refuse to be indifferent!
Remember everything that is not love, goodness and peace relies on you to be indifferent. So, refuse to be indifferent always! "I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that's a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time"
- Toni Morrison -
Waiting in stillness
Waiting seasons are so loud with advice of what to do and what not to do, stress and trying figure it out. I, however, am an advocate of waiting in stillness. This stillness doesn’t erase action but rather stabilises self in order to navigate it all. Surrender and be obedient to the season. In all you do keep your heart soft.
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Reclaiming our lives
We have to keep trying to reclaim our lives because one day we will be able to do it permanently. We have to keep reclaiming our lives because one day we get full ownership of it!
I hope you know that you have to keep trying not because you will one day win but because the answers are in the continuous trial and error. And the answers aren't just for you but for many generations to come. And perhaps
that's the win.