AlexFeb 23
Sasha 
"Resilience" is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.
EDIT: the author of the quote is Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly.
Feb 23 at 5:22pmWeb
Show threadSasha Feb 23
This was a quote by a Twitter user. But I left Twitter, so I can't check that anymore 
Show threadMikaelFeb 24
@sashag It seems to be a quote by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly: https://twitter.com/drcbs_/status/1539737405091110912
Dr. CBS (@drcbs_) on X

“Resilience” is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.

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Show threadSasha Feb 24
@mkl Thank you!
Show threadCarolynFeb 23
@sashag I especially hate it described to children. Children are survivors, many with invisible wounds.
Show thread2¢Feb 23
@sashag Not long ago there was a political constituency in primary education circles that idolized the concept. Their pet word was "grit." It was disgusting.
Show threadSune AukenFeb 24

@sashag

Ah yes.

Case in point:
Resilience is the one quality you can't do without if you want a research career in the university. By consequence, we are all terribly resilient, and the underlying problems that make resilience a necessity can continue unaddressed.

...

Sigh.

Show threadFriekeFeb 24
@sashag you're so strong.
...
I wasn't given a choice 😏
Show threadDouglas Edwards Feb 24

@sashag "Celebrating Resilience" is just another way of saying #ArbeitMachtFrei".

THE WORST IDEA IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

Show threadlonely extrovertFeb 24
@sashag hrm. my therapist recently told me that developing resilience is a good thing. ...i'm not sure that word means what she thinks it means...
Show threadSasha Feb 24

@rothko There are two meanings indeed. The one your therapist probably talked about is more about protecting yourself from being hit hard by external forces/influences.

The other one often used in management and every day discourse is about fighting through/enduring the hardships.

So while the first version allows you to decline things you're actually don't want to do or can't do without hurting yourself, the second one frames enduring bad things at all times as a matter of honor, no matter what is the cost.

Show threadlonely extrovertFeb 24
@sashag yeah, i'm sure she was talking about the first one, but i still cringed.
Show threadSasha Feb 24
@rothko It has this connotation. I have a whole conference talk about why "software engineers aren't Klingons". Nobody should have to be "proud" of battle wounds.
Show threadJason StuartFeb 24
@sashag If I hear the phrase "mental resilience" once more at my office....I'll have heard it once more too many...sigh.