1 in 3 women. 1 in 4 men. At work, at the gym, in any social context, gender-based violence is present in our lives and you may not even consider it all that often. But what if you did? What if you stepped onto the dance floor or into your lesson with an understanding of what gender-based violence is, who is at risk of it and the questions you can ask yourself to ensure that you are not making someone else feel threatened or uncomfortable? Let’s find out. Dabney Evans focuses her academ...
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1 in 3 women. 1 in 4 men. At work, at the gym, in any social context, gender-based violence is present in our lives and you may not even consider it all that often. But what if you did? What if you stepped onto the dance floor or into your lesson with an understanding of what gender-based violence is, who is at risk of it and the questions you can ask yourself to ensure that you are not making someone else feel threatened or uncomfortable? Let’s find out. Dabney Evans focuses her academ...
TED 23 | Why You Should Care about Language in Lessons with Bobbie Miles
The Empowered Dancers Podcast
12 minutes
1 year ago
TED 23 | Why You Should Care about Language in Lessons with Bobbie Miles
Language is a powerful thing. We are dancers and movement is a big part of how we communicate on the social dance floor, but in lessons and workshops, words are the communication method of choice. So the words we choose matter. Using “men/guys” as interchangeable with “leaders” and “women/girls/ladies” as interchangeable with followers keeps all dancers in a box they never chose to be in and maintains the social limitations of everyday life that so many of us are trying so hard to overc...
The Empowered Dancers Podcast
1 in 3 women. 1 in 4 men. At work, at the gym, in any social context, gender-based violence is present in our lives and you may not even consider it all that often. But what if you did? What if you stepped onto the dance floor or into your lesson with an understanding of what gender-based violence is, who is at risk of it and the questions you can ask yourself to ensure that you are not making someone else feel threatened or uncomfortable? Let’s find out. Dabney Evans focuses her academ...
