Finding Grace | Samira Rajabi
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
What if social media and tech could be a powerful ally in the process of recovering from trauma? That's exactly what today's guest, Samira Rajabi (@srajabi), discovered. A scholar of digital and social media, trauma and international relations, Rajabi teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work on personal and mass-scale societal trauma, and how social media and technology can actually be powerful tools for recovering, meaning-making and finding belonging and safety in the aftermath, is truly groundbreaking.
Rajabi's own experience of being othered early in life left her in search of a clear sense of identity and belonging. But it was a diagnosis of a brain tumor, followed by 10 surgeries, that led her to reexamine nearly every part of her life, values, relationships, choices, how she chooses to experience each moment, and reclaim a sense of grace and acceptance with whatever her life brings.
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| 0:58.5 | So the first time I saw Samira Jabi, she was speaking on stage at TEDx in Boulder, Colorado. |
| 1:09.0 | I was blown away by her story, her graceful wise kind, straight up funny presence, especially |
| 1:17.9 | given the fact that over the last few years, she'd been diagnosed with a brain tumor, endured |
| 1:23.6 | 10 surgeries and on any given day might find herself leaking spinal fluid while teaching |
| 1:29.2 | students at the university. I kind of had to know more and as I dove deeper into the work |
| 1:36.0 | she has devoted herself to for her professional life, I was even more convicted. She had to |
| 1:41.7 | be on the podcast. So I reached out to her. She is a scholar of digital media, trauma, |
| 1:47.1 | social media, international relations, feminist theory and communication. Samira is currently |
| 1:52.8 | an instructor and director of digital influenced pedagogy at the University of Colorado, but it |
| 1:59.7 | was her take on trauma, both personal and mass scale societal trauma and how social media |
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