GROWING EMPOWERMENT - Frailty Myths, with Erinn Carter & Georgia Faye Hirs

Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden · Jan 23, 2020 · 56m

This week on CP, we're emboldened to consider our strength and power in the garden and in life generally by Erinn Carter and Georgia Faye Hirsty, two of the co-founders of an organization known as Frailty Myths, based in Oakland, CA. Their mission is to reimagine femininity and build power by excusing ourselves from the implications, hobbles, and damage wrought by mainstream conceptions of what is naturally feminine or naturally masculine (the dominant ethos of what we know as "patriarchy” and as perpetuated by us all). At Frailty Myths, they instead model, ask, encourage us to bring our…