Continuum

I've just finished a session with Maha Bali and Autumm Caines talking about Virtually Connecting. It was a session with folks from the University of Coventry, Digital Media Learn Lab (@disrupt_learn). The focus was on virtually connecting from conferences, in conversations, with relationships of trust and vulnerability. I'm left with a feeling of being misunderstood and battered by positions of privilege from those who don't face the same barriers of finances, space and place. As I write this, I'm thinking of the feelings Maha must feel when constantly being questioned about building relationships in open, digital spaces through video conversations. Why does this one event leave me with these feelings and impressions?

I'm not accustomed to confrontational stances. Most people I speak to in open spaces have a less assertive stance in our conversations. This was different. Push back, provocative statements, and feelings about binaries are leaving me feeling unsettled after this session. I'm going to come back to this post since there's a continuum involved and I'm at the low end of it right now. ..... more to come.