Whatever power she derives from her position, she does not represent the religion, race or gender of systemic power in this country.
One hopes that City Ballet will take this important moment to address systemic power imbalances and become a model for companies throughout the world.
It stands opposed to the supercilious voices of journalists, officials, and other mouthpieces for "Babylon," that wondrously flexible Jamaican slang term for systemic power.
There is no gender equivalence because there is no systemic power inversion that would support it.
Systemic power differentials are not new or inherently bad as they have been applied for centuries in the business world, in the military and in numerous organizations/systems.
Is it possible that they are just doing more of the same?" At the very least there isn't a stark systemic power imbalance that separates the two styles Yahgulanaas works in.
One example of an agreed upon family systemic power differential is of marriages where both parties hold similar religious or socio/cultural beliefs that allow for the man to be the "leader" of the family.
Now, brought to light by Trump's candidacy, the hypocrisy of the GOP, and the misogyny Hillary Clinton's gone through, women's lack of systemic power resonates with us all.
Zimbardo defines it in The Lucifer Effect thusly: "Evil consists in intentionally behaving in ways that harm, abuse, demean, dehumanize, or destroy innocent others--or using one's authority and systemic power to encourage or permit others to do so on your behalf".
Joining colleagues from the Global North who also call for more comprehensively concentrating on systemic power relations (e.g. [ 2- 4]), researchers from the Global South have been arguing for shifting our attention to social processes (e.g. [ 16]), and indeed shifting our language from "social determinants" to the processes of the "social determination" of health [SDnH] ([ 17- 20]).
