Inventing BE

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fiercely courageous and exhilarating <em>Inventing BE</em> depicts the life and time travel of Dutch designer architect and Alinker walking bike founder BE Alink. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inventing BE </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a story a person finding their oneness in community with others. Yet it is a deeper story of how to (re)create ways of being with/as each other that can heal us while dismantling social structures that seek to separate us from our authentic selves and from each other. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inventing BE </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>shows us the joy in connecting and it is only through connection that we can be free. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Dr. Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Decolonizing Design: a Cultural Justice Guidebook</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and Lead Executive Officer Dori Tunstall Inc.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Growing up in the Netherlands BE had no language for what she felt about her being. How traditional society-including family members and teachers-viewed her did not align with how she experienced herself from a very early age. In the stirring trenches of international humanitarian work across continents BE discovered herself in places torn apart by volatile crises like Afghanistan Kenya Ethiopia and Indonesia positively affecting many others along the way. BE has seen sights and peeked beneath oppressive systems most wouldn't dare. In the process she learned that to live a rich life one had to confront the darkness of humanity to turn on the light of true freedom-in mind body and spirit. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inventing BE</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is both memoir and manifesto dedicated to anyone who has ever had to conform or compromise their authentic self. You are never alone and in the strangest most far-flung places you may be right at home.</span></p>