Comments on: Building Community Cultural Leadership https://culturalorganizing.org/building-community-cultural-leadership/ Working for justice at the intersection of art, activism, education, and culture Thu, 14 May 2015 03:39:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 By: pjkuttner https://culturalorganizing.org/building-community-cultural-leadership/#comment-76 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:30:00 +0000 /?p=1028#comment-76 In reply to Jess.

HI Jess,
Love the blog, and great to read your thoughts on cultural leadership. Would you mind if I re-posted it here? And very cool about working with Dr. Jenkins, I’d love to connect with her at some point and hear more about the class she’s been developing.

I do think CL could be a powerful concept for organizing, if we can pull it away from celebrity worship. I think of this a lot in terms of hip-hop activism — which too often is just big stars using their names to get out the vote. While there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s not going to strengthen our communities in the long run or help develop other cultural leaders.

Sounds like you’re doing excellent work in DC.

]]> By: Jess https://culturalorganizing.org/building-community-cultural-leadership/#comment-75 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:52:00 +0000 /?p=1028#comment-75 Fellow traveler! Great post. I’ve been thinking about cultural leadership in my city… Specifically ways to galvanize folks to use CL as a framework (thoughts?).I also wrote about this not too long ago, also citing Dr. Toby Jenkins (who served as a mentor during undergrad). http://artinpraxis.org/2013/ ]]>