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Janaina Medeiros
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Ongoing reservations
This may be my first post since I moved, and certainly the first in quite a while.  I just got off a conf call w the other navs and I’m just…I don’t know. Angry?  Feeling stupid? Depressed? Invisible? Unwanted? Overwhelmed? It’s been about 2.5 months since I moved and I’m still unsure whether moving here, taking this job, was the right decision. I didn’t have many choices, though, so it’s kind of…
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My Scattered Mind
In addition to today being the rallies and counter rallies and tension downtown, I’m completely distracted by the possibility of moving to Spokane, of having a real job again, the chance to build a new life for myself.  I have loved my life in Portland, but it feels like this phase is ending, that I need to be open to something new.  Since taking the contract with OHA, I’ve realized how much I…
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Gird Those Loins
it’s the day after the Womens’ March on Washington and I’m feeling emotionally hung over.  The latte is helping, but there is just so much to process and parse, it’s hard to get my thoughts and feelings corralled into a useful space.  I’ve been posting like a madwoman on FB, a bit less on the Twitter, mostly about the march and all the pictures and videos and the overwhelming sense of unity.…
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Post election thoughts
I’m publishing this two days after the Ascension of trump, almost two months post-election.  I started writing this post and then just had to stop, but I’m posting so I can track my thought process and watch its evolution.  This isn’t well-written, pithy, or anything other than observations on my state of mind that day. ====================== As millions have already done (and I’ve been doing…
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The Hodge Podge
It’s been almost a year since my work at the prison ended and about three months since my most recent gig.  Two major life changes in under a year, significant loss, grief, anger, and feelings of helplessness has been, at best, difficult.  At worst, I feel paralyzed, trapped by my choices and circumstances, and the higgledy-piggledy path I’ve walked.  At best, I have rediscovered art, created a…
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Do you think I'm black?
Do you think I’m black?
When I was in high school, black boys and white boys both called me names. “Oreo” and “high yellow” came from the black boys, “grape ape” and “jolly green giant” came from white boys. The message was clear: I was too light-skinned and too big. Even then, I understood the issue of size. Real girls, attractive girls, girls the boys wanted, were small – petite and dainty and slim – not tall and…
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An Exaggeration
Seth Godin recently published this very short post: A parody of yourself A simple test for brands, organizations and individuals: When you exaggerate the things that people associate with you, your presence and your contribution, does it make you a better version of yourself?  When Seth gets it right (which is often), he gets it really really right.  I’ve been thinking about this question since…
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Lodestones
I’ve been avoiding writing for the last several months.  There are many reasons for this.  I’ve been turning to artwork as an expressive outlet, a need to be out of my internal, intellectual world, a deep, pervasive feeling of exhaustion, and, related to that exhaustion, no desire or will. The impacts of seven months of looking for work, a two month journey to losing it, and the last ten weeks of…
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Reading the Comments
I recently wrote a post about rediscovering my desire to serve others.  Much to my surprise, my post garnered a very long, angry comment largely focused on what an arrogant dick I am for openly expressing this desire.  The comment opened with “I don’t even know you” and proceeded to cover a wide swath of territory that included judgments on my character, accusations about my intentions, and…
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Finding North
Today, my life re-oriented itself and I am renewed in purpose.  I had the enormous fortune to spend some time with a friend – one of those friends who is supportive but directive and says the really crucial stuff, sometimes the really hard stuff.  It was the equivalent of someone taking me by the shoulders and saying  “Look, what happened was painful and unexpected, and this path doesn’t get any…
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Thoughts on Inclusion
I’m writing this post to clarify my thinking on this topic and address a question I think The Eleanor Club will (inevitably) be asked:  “If one of your values is inclusion, why are you excluding men?”  My first response, the diplomatic, inclusion-oriented response, would be to say “we aren’t excluding men, we’re just focusing on women,” but that isn’t entirely true.  While we likely wouldn’t ask…
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In a Raggedy Nutshell
In a Raggedy Nutshell
This last venture into unemployment, although not even a week old, has coughed up some significant personal epiphanies.  Because I’m a writer and believe in laying down the roses and the shit, here’s what I’ve learned. First – I’ve long been clinging to this notion that if I just make the right choices, I’ll somehow have a normal, conventional life.  I’ll write more on that later but the end…
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The Eleanor Club
My friend Dennise and I were talking a few months back about women and power.  We’re both mid-career professionals, were both unemployed, and having weekly conversations about our job search, and what it means to be older women looking for positions of responsibility and influence.  Those conversations birthed The Eleanor Club, a place where women can speak directly about their areas of…
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Women, Tech, Leadership
Today was the first day of the Advancing the Careers of Technical Women (ACT-W) conference in Portland.  I was selected to facilitate conversation about Servant Leadership, and these are the notes from that session.  It was an excellent conversation, and I am deeply appreciative to everyone who participated.  I didn’t get pictures of the whiteboards, but here’s what I remember from the…
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After the Purge
Sitting down to write this post took an enormous effort of will.  I finished an online creative nonfiction course a few weeks ago and I stopped writing regularly as soon as my final essay was complete, so it’s been maybe two months of unexpected and welcome relief.  For the last two years, writing about my experience in the prison has been a release of sorts.  It helped capture my thoughts and…
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Another Brick in the Wall
Another Brick in the Wall
The Portland Police Union has decided that despite all the tensions with black and brown Portlanders, it would be cool to host an invite-only, $1000 per head play date with whomever they deem desirable. It is impossible to comprehend how a police union (and bureau) that publicly wails about how badly we (the citizenry) misunderstand and misinterpret its motives could think this type of event is…
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