Turn This World Inside Out
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"Violence is nurturance turned backwards," writes Nora Samaran. In Turn This World Inside Out, she presents Nurturance Culture as the opposite of rape culture and suggests how alternative models of care and accountability-different from "call-outs," which are often rooted in the politics of shame and guilt-can move toward inverting cultures of dominance and systems of oppression. When communities are able to recognize and speak up about systemic violence, center the needs of those harmed, and hold a circle of belonging that humanizes everyone, they create a revolutionary foundation of nurturance that can begin to repair the harms inflicted by patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism. Emerging out of insights in Gender Studies, Race Theory, and Psychology, and influenced by contemporary social movements, Turn This World Inside Out speaks to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
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Nora Samaran is the psuedonym of Naava Smolash, a faculty member in the English department at Douglas College. She holds a PhD from Simon Fraser University. Her writing appears in academic and popular publications including Studies in Canadian Literature, West Coast Line, Briarpatch, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. She was a member of the No One is Illegal-Vancouver collective from 2005 to 2008, and the Media Democracy Day-Vancouver collective from 2008 to 2010.
Content
Introduction: Nurturance Culture Means Holding the Circle 1. The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture 2. Dialogue on Masculinity 3. On Gaslighting 4. Dialogue: Beyond Masculinity 5. Dialogue: Turning This World Inside Out 6. Own, Apologize, Repair: Coming Back to Integrity 80 7. Dialogue: Moving Into Action Conclusion: Beyond a Dominance Paradigm
