Legacy​

"One is responsible to life: it is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we have come and to which we will return.   One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us". ​ James Baldwin.

Julia's legacy

My Community & Youth Work training  in the early 1970s was a course of  experiential learning in the democratic pursuit of social justice and political change.  The focus of my subsequent academic and professional life in Adult and Communnity Education has been on Language, Power and Participation.
This includes an interest in gender, which was the focus of my doctoral thesis, underpins my attempt to rethink the concept of internalised oppression and informs my concern about the divisions arising from some of the polarised arguments about feminism and 'trans' politics. ​