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# Briony Penn

Briony Penn (born October 16, 1960) is a Canadian author, educator, geographer, artist, and environmental activist. She graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in geography/anthropology from the University of British Columbia and in 1988 with a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Edinburgh. Penn is an adjunct professor of environmental studies at the University of Victoria. In 1997 she co-founded The Land Conservancy of British Columbia and serves on its board. Her 2015 book The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan won the 2016 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Penn wrote two books in collaboration with Wa’xaid (Cecil Paul), an elder of the Haisla people.

## Quotes

* There is no doubt in my mind about which type of vulture I want attendant upon my death. Any funeral industry catalogue will provide you with a long list of the unwelcome vultures. A book on the birds of the west coast will supply you with the one species I would be happy pick over my bones — the Turkey Vulture. There are few selfless acts toward the natural world available to human beings and the one that would cause us the least inconvenience is illegal — the simple act of being consumed by nature's prime scavengers.
** A Year on the Wild Side. Horsdal & Schubart. 1999. p. 124. ISBN 0-920663-68-0. p.124, 1st 3 sentences; p. 124, last sentence
* In these interviews I got a privileged glimpse into his century — and what a century. In mathematical terms, the population-savvy Cowan would have noted that 1910 to 2010 represents one of the steepest trajectories in rates of extinction the world has ever experienced, rivaling the late Cretaceous. In his lifetime the number of humans had escalated from 1.75 billion to just under 7 billion, consuming proportionally more resources than in the past ten millennia to achieve a rising standard of living but also an obscene inequity. In poetic terms, Cowan the photographer and writer had captured the beauty and diversity of the wildlife and landscapes devoured. The loss of them was profound. What captured my imagination was that he was both early witness to and participant in these changes. He was the last of the naturalist-hunters and the first of the alarmed scientists.
** "Preface". The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian Mactaggart Cowan. Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. p. xi. ISBN 978-1-77160-070-5.
* The herring in Fulford Harbour had disappeared by around 1983. They just suddenly stopped. They were just nowhere.
** (March 1, 2022)"CHI Herring School: Dr. Briony Penn". Conservancy Hornby Island, YouTube. (quote at 12:26 of 30:45)

## External links

* Biography of Briony Penn at her personal website
* ABC BookWorld article
# Annelie Lotriet
## Biography

Annelie Lotriet (born 8 June 1960) is a South African politician who is currently serving as the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa since June 2024

## Quotes

* I want Parliament to be a place where people can voice their concerns, a place where they can be heard
* True equality means women having the right to make decisions about their own lives—where they want to live, what they want to do, whether they want children or not
** Annelie Lotriet advocates for gender equality
* Electing the speaker was easy, because we would support the ANC, but then the next test was, are they going to support me? Because they've never supported any other party. You’re overwhelmed because you don’t know. And it took long, I was only elected that night, a bit of an unreal moment
** Annelie Lotriet on her getting to Deputy Speaker
* I want to contribute to the orderly functioning of Parliament and ensure decisions are made in a reasonable time. I aim to make Parliament a place where people can be heard
* I think it's extremely good for democracy. The ANC's control of everything wasn't good for democracy or the ANC itself. Now, with different parties holding committee chairs, there's better accountability. It's a win-win for everyone—for the ANC, for the country, and for the voters
** Annelie Lotriet on rebuilding of Parliament
* t’s just the tip of the iceberg. Real equal rights are still lacking for women on the ground. We still have a patriarchal system, as seen in gender-based violence and the burdens women carry as providers and carers
* True equality means women having the right to make decisions about their own lives—where they want to live, what they want to do, whether they want children or not
** Annelie Lotriet speaks further on equality
* I live in a house with men, so for me, it's the sensitivity and caring element. In a man's world, you do whatever needs to be done, but women often have a different approach. We look for solutions and try to ease conflicts. That's what I intend to bring to my new role
# Catalina Devandas Aguilar

Catalina Devandas Aguilar, is a Costa Rican lawyer who served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from 2014 until 2020. She currently serves as Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations at Geneva. Previously, she worked for the World Bank and took part in the establishment of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with the United Nations Secretariat. She has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair.

## Quotes

* We cannot continue to deal with a GA hall that is not accessible for wheelchair users. We cannot continue to not be able to enter bathrooms. There is a lot to do and we are not happy about that, but what I am optimistic about is we now have a framework of action,
** At UN disability rights conference, experts question UN inclusivity Devex (13 June 2019)
* It requires this organization to be held accountable on how they are doing with persons with disabilities, but also it is important that it will provide the support at national levels,
* UNICEF, UNDP, and all the agencies working at country level will have to support programmatically the implementation of the convention and that is a fundamental change and is something that is strongly needed.
** At UN disability rights conference, experts question UN inclusivity Devex (13 June 2019)
* Just the fact that a woman with a disability from Costa Rica is seen on national television in the DPRK running around on a scooter and being very modern and talking brings a different perspective and even hope to persons with disabilities in a country that has been in such isolation,”
** ENGAGING NORTH KOREA SUCCESSFULLY ON HUMAN RIGHTS Foreign Policy In Focus (September 29, 2017)
# Esperança da Costa

Esperança Maria Eduardo Francisco da Costa (born 3 May 1961) is an Angolan biologist, academic, and politician. She has been serving as the fourth vice president of Angola since 15 September 2022. Prior to this, she was the deputy leader of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party during the 2022 general elections.

## Quotes

* Education is essential for advancing gender equality and empowering women in Angola.
* The expansion of preschool and primary education networks, along with the goal of making education compulsory up to the 9th grade.
* The government's program includes the participation of approximately 5,000 volunteers.
* "Education is fundamental to development." To promote gender equality and empower women in Angola, the government has implemented various programs, including training initiatives and support for scientific research, all led by skilled academics.
* "We are providing credits to the most vulnerable women in these areas as part of public policies aimed at inclusive and sustainable financing."
* According to estimates from the country's regulatory agency and other stakeholders, women represent only about 14 percent of the workforce in the oil and gas sector, with just 4 percent holding management positions.
* We can all get there together
* the change in society's awareness of the role of women is underway
* the government wants to ensure the food security of the population through more diversified food sources and seeks to map all kinds of natural resources to establish management and exploitation plans that translate into development and well-being
* Protected areas in Angola have gone from almost 6% of the national territory to 12%, including national parks and transboundary conservation areas. The parks are authentic laboratories for research on vegetation cover in Angola, in which 27% of the species are endemic, and 37% are medicinal plants

## External Links

Biography
# Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (February 13, 1743 – June 19, 1820) was an English naturalist and botanist.

## Sourced

* [General literacy would] teach [the poor] to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture, and other laborious employment to which their rank in society has destined them;... it would enable them to read seditious pamphlets, vicious books, and publications against Christianity; it would render them insolent.
** John Oxenham: 'Literacy. Writing, Reading and Social Organisation'. As quoted in 'The Writing Systems of the World' by Florian Coulmas p. 6

## Quotes about Joseph Banks

* Banks was a student of natural history in its broadest sense, and when at sea he made observations concerning birds, marine animals of various kinds, belonging to lower or higher orders, while on land he discusses in a most interesting manner insects and animals, the appliances and habits of the natives, and so forth.
** Joseph Henry Maiden, Sir Joseph Banks: The "Father of Australia". Sydney, Australia: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer. 1909. p. 22.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Joseph Banks on Wikipedia
* Media related to Joseph Banks on Wikimedia Commons
* Works related to Author:Joseph Banks on Wikisource
* Data related to Joseph Banks on Wikispecies
# Susan David

Susan A. David (born 13 September 1970) is a South African psychologist, speaker and author.

## Quotes

* Our hidden demons are simply the residue of perfectly ordinary and almost universal insecurity, self-doubt, and fear of failure. Maybe you still resent your sister for flirting with your boyfriends in high school. Maybe you feel undervalued by your new boss. This is not even the stuff of a good, tear-soaked Oprah episode. But it can be enough to hook you into behaving in ways that don’t serve you.
* In looking for the right places to make these tiny changes, there are three broad areas of opportunity. You can tweak your beliefs—or what psychologists call your mindset; you can tweak your motivations; and you can tweak your habits. When we learn how to make small changes in each of these areas, we set ourselves up to make profound, lasting change over the course of our lives.
* Life is full of diving boards and other precipices, but, as we’ve seen throughout this discussion of emotional agility, making the leap is not about ignoring, fixing, fighting, or controlling fear—or anything else you might be experiencing. Rather, it’s about accepting and noticing all your emotions and thoughts, viewing even the most powerful of them with compassion and curiosity, and then choosing courage over comfort in order to do whatever you’ve determined is most important to you. Courage, once again, is not the absence of fear.
* Perhaps the best term to describe living at the edge of our ability, thriving and flourishing, being challenged but not overwhelmed, is simply “whelmed.” And a key part of being whelmed lies in being selective in our commitments, which means taking on the challenges that really speak to you and that emerge from an awareness of your deepest values.
* In the same way, our suffering, our disengagement, our relationship challenges, and our other difficulties are almost never solved by thinking in the same old, automatic way. Being emotionally agile involves being sensitive to context and responding to the world as it is right now.
* Compassion gives us the freedom to redefine ourselves as well as the all-important freedom to fail, which contains within it the freedom to take the risks that allow us to be truly creative.
# Floretta Boonzaier

Floretta Avril Boonzaier is a South African psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. She is noted for her work in feminist, critical and postcolonial psychologies, subjectivity in relation to race, gender and sexuality, and gender-based violence, and qualitative psychologies, especially narrative, discursive and participatory methods.

## Quotes

* I especially enjoy doing research that provides the opportunity for collaboration. Research and writing can be a lonely endeavour, so the opportunity to engage with others in your field can be hugely enriching and my experience suggests that it advances innovative, creative and novel scholarship. I especially enjoy opening collaborative spaces through supervision of master’s and doctoral students and have often learned more from the students I supervise rather than the other way around.
* Ending men’s violence toward women is a key concern, not only for women’s well-being, but for the well-being of society as a whole. South Africa is notorious for its excessively high levels of gendered violence. My work has made practical recommendations for ending men’s violence and contributing to gender equity that have been taken up by a number of organisations.
* My research allows me to work against representations on violence and marginalised people, representations that include me, as a black woman from a working-class background.
* Pursue research interests that drive and sustain your passions – but also look around you and consider the contexts in which you work and what your work might be doing at the level of ethics, politics and representation.
* It is important to think critically and to reflect on the ethical and political impact of your research – regardless of the ‘kind’ of psychology you end up doing. The contexts in which we work as researchers and psychologists – that involve deepening global and local inequalities, growing legitimised and institutionalised forms of racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and increasing poverty and dispossession – demand that we think carefully about how or whether our work advances social justice.
# William Sharp (writer)

William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton.

## Quotes

* Green wind from the green-gold branches, what is the song you bring? What are all songs for me, now, who no more care to sing? Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
** Poem The Lonely Hunter.
** Cf. Carson McCullers
* How beautiful they are, The lordly ones Who dwell in the hills, In the hollow hills.
** Faery song from play The Immortal Hour.
* Across the silent stream Where the dream-shadows go, From the dim blue Hill of Dream I have heard the west wind blow.
** From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Love is a beautiful dream.
** Cor Cordium, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight Of the Valleys of Dream.
** Dream Fantasy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Down beyond the haven the tide comes with a shout.
** An old Tale of Three, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* The desire of love, Joy: The desire of life, Peace: The desire of the soul, Heaven: The desire of God … a flame-white secret forever.
** Desire, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
** Longing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* I hear the little children of the wind Crying solitary in lonely places.
** Little Children of the Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

## External links

* Works by William Sharp at Project Gutenberg
* Sharp's poems online, volume 1
* Sharp's poems online volume 2
* Sharp's poems online volume 3
# Lucy Allais

Lucy Allais is a philosopher who holds academic positions at both the University of the Witwatersrand and Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include the philosophy of Immanuel Kant as well as forgiveness, punishment, and bioethics.

## Quotes

* Kant's distinction between things in themselves and things as they appear to us has both epistemological and metaphysical components. He is committed to a genuine idealism about things as they appear to us, but this is not a phenomenalist idealism. He is committed to the claim that thereis an aspect of reality that grounds mind-dependent spatio-temporal objects, and which we cannot cognize, but he does not assert the existence of distinct non-spatio-temporal objects.
* Kant's idealism can be understood as limiting empirical reality to that withwhich we can have acquaintance. He thinks that this empirical reality is mind-dependent in the sense that it is not experience-transcendent, rather than holding that it exists literally in our minds. Reading intuition in this way enables us to make sense of Kant's central argument for his idealism inthe Transcendental Aesthetic, and to see why he takes the complete idealist position to be established there. This shows that reading a central part of his argument in the Transcendental Deduction as epistemological is compatible with a metaphysical, idealist reading of transcendental idealism.
* My aim in this chapter is to characterize the change of heart that plays a role in forgiveness—in giving up warranted blaming reactive attitudes. I present this in the context of developing a Kantian account of what forgiveness is and why we need it, drawing on his moral psychology to characterize the relevant change of heart.
* I appeal in particular to Kant’s account of human frailty and its relation to his account of human evil. I argue that it is frail and flawed agents who lack an entirely fixed and stable character for whom forgiveness is a live option and a need. For such agents, there may be space to interpret us in the light of better willing than our wrongdoing indicates.
# Makhosazana Xaba

Makhosazana Xaba (born 10 July 1957) is a South African poet and short-story writer. She trained as a nurse and has worked a women's health specialist in NGOs, as well as writing on gender and health. She is Associate Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.

## Quotes

* It is a summer of songs composed in blood, tuned with guns and arranged in conversations. It is a summer of songs I sing in swelling volumes.
* I write poetry from my personal space, in my personal voice. I say “I am here”. I address women in the world.
* I first encountered your 2019 debut collection Agringada: Like a Gringa, Like a Foreigner (Modjaji Books) at the Rosebank branch of Exclusive Books. I spent so much time trying to read the two words on the cover, the ones in a small black font. After numerous failed attempts I decided I would use my magnifying glass when I got back home. It was in that moment that I realised: Oh, they are using the very cover to give me the visceral experience of what I am about to read! Then I thought: Effective! Smart! I love it! I am buying this book!
* I was still in the queue at the bookshop when I read the contents page, and I began to smile, because Tongues of their Mothers—my second poetry collection—is also divided into four sections using the names of seasons. In your book, there are eleven poems in Winter, fifteen in Summer, three in Spring and thirteen in Autumn.
* These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts.
# AnnMarie Wolpe

AnnMarie Wolpe (1 December 1930 – 14 February 2018, née Kantor). She was a South African anti-apartheid activist, sociologist and feminist. Her husband Harold Wolpe was also a South African anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned along with Nelson Mandela.

## Quotes

* Thank you for such a stimulating and often controversial presentation. As they say: "Three Jews, four different opinions".
* We apologise for holding this meeting during the month of Ramadan. We have begun at 6.30 to allow the Parliamentarians to arrive. One of the functions of the Trust is to promote intellectual debate in post democratic South Africa. We produce a pamphlet of these monthly meetings. Many thanks to Leslie Liddell.
My Rhumatologist suggested the title of this debate to me-would this be boring? In fact this process has made me examine my own notions of being Jewish. In 1986, in France, the graves in a Jewish Cemetery were desecrated- one of the skeletons had a pick buried in its heart. Five years later, a neo-fascist confessed to doing this. As recent similar attacks on Jewish institutions continue, I have no doubt that these events are congruent.
* Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) will open the discussion. He has studied Architecture and Fine Art at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is published in newspapers and educational magazines and in fact is "the cartoonist for most newspapers." Milton Shain is Director of Jewish Studies at UCT and has written and edited many books on Jewish History. He has also received numerous awards both at Jerusalem and Yale Universities.
# Melissa Steyn

Melissa Steyn is a South African academic based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Prior to moving to Johannesburg in 2011, she taught at the University of Cape Town.

## Quotes

* Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be.
* The central question for whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa can be put simply: how to maintain privilege in a situation in which black people have achieved political power. Many stances to the new dispensation are available to white South Africans, but this article concerns only resistant white discourses, referred to as White Talk.
* Working with the recollections of everyday experiences of apartheid collected by the Apartheid Archives project, and drawing on the emerging theorization of ignorance in the critical philosophy of race, this article explores how an ‘ignorance contract’ – the tacit agreement to entertain ignorance – lies at the heart of a society structured in racial hierarchy. Unlike the conventional theorization of ignorance that regards ignorance as a matter of faulty individual cognition, or a collective absence of yet-to-be-acquired knowledge, ignorance is understood as a social achievement with strategic value.
* The apartheid narratives illustrate that for ignorance to function as social regulation, subjectivities must be formed that are appropriate performers of ignorance, disciplined in cognition, affect and ethics.
* Both white and black South Africans produced epistemologies of ignorance, although the terms of the contract were set by white society as the group with the dominant power.