Links: Unexpected power and influence

[sonia]

Impostor/Abuser: Power Dynamics in Publishing by Sarah Gailey, via Captain Awkward.

But the day will come when you meet someone who idolizes you. Someone who thinks you can help them realize a dream. Someone whose life was changed by your work, who cares what you think, who cares what you do.

Even if you don’t see yourself as important, you will be important to that person. They will not know or care what your impostor syndrome tells you. No matter what that small, cruel voice tells you about yourself, you will still have the power to make that person feel small or scared or unsafe.

The yoga world is riddled with anti-vaxxers and QAnon believers by Cécile Guerin. "In my day job, I monitor the spread of online disinformation and conspiracy theories. I never expected to find them at my yoga class."

Comments

[silveradept]

The idea that someone might look up to me and think of me as someone to idolize is slightly terrifying, even if it might be true.

[sonia]

Yeah? I guess as an older sibling I grew up with the idea that it was possible, even though my sister really isn't the idolizing type.

I think a lot about age-related power and responsibilities, especially now that I'm in my fifties, and looking back on uneven relationships in my past.