Disrupting Dominance: Privilege, Positionality, and Possibilities for Shared Power

A recent scan of major headlines reveals the narratives of a nation deeply conflicted about race, gender, and power. The quest by native peoples to protect indigenous lands from oil pipelines, the activism of National Football League (NFL) football players to decry police shootings of African Americans, white nationalists bellowing “they will not replace us!” an unprecedented movement among women exposing male aggression in a chorus of “#MeToo,” and the implementation of immigration policies that restrict asylum seekers from entering the United States highlight the racially charged and gender-fraught issues of our day (Hoffman & Belson, 2017; Sargent, 2019; Shugerman, 2017; Stohlberg & Rosenthal, 2017; Thorbecke, 2016). The realities of patriarchy, microaggressions, discrimination against LGBTQ workers, and the gender wage gap plague our organizations, political systems, and spiritual communities (Canaday, 2009; Kezar & Lester, 2010; Ortner, 2019).