A village is what sustains you when the emergency is not an emergency at all but just your life, over and over again.
Every society runs on stories it mistakes for facts. In America, those stories shape who gets help, who gets blamed, and who is left out. Not My Narrative is a Next Citypodcast and essay series that debunks the pervasive myths that have been used to justify neglect, inequity, and the status quo — and elevates the people proving those myths wrong.
This week, in “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps! vs. It Takes a Village,” our CEO Aisha Nyandoro is a guest on the podcast to share the story of how we examine the impossibility of the “bootstraps” narrative.
