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Caring loudly enough, and long enough, that someone with power has to listen.
means The act of publicly supporting or arguing for a cause, policy, or person, especially someone who can't push as hard for themselves.
from From Latin 'advocare' — 'to call to' — literally to call someone in to help or speak on your behalf. The same root gives us 'advocate,' originally a person literally summoned into a Roman legal case to lend their voice. The sense has barely shifted in two thousand years: advocacy is still about calling someone in, and raising a voice, on another's behalf.
- not charity
- charity treats symptoms, advocacy rewrites the rules causing them
- oldest trick
- ancient Roman advocati argued cases for cash, not justice
- self version
- self-advocacy is just asking for what you need, loudly
- quiet form
- one well-placed email often outworks ten protest signs