Gloria Steinem Instagram – I was lucky to meet @candicebhopkins and learn about the @forgeprojectny in person during a recent Talking Circle. We were brought together then thanks to the Center for Feminist Art and @brooklynmuseum For those who might be learning about Forge for the first time, it is a Native-led organization whose mandate is to cultivate and advance Indigenous leadership in arts and culture. What I have learned in my own experiences of Indigenous Cultures, each beautifully unique, was reflected in our time together. Most characteristic of the hundreds of original cultures on every continent was and is their practice of balance and reciprocity, of and, not either/or: of balance between individual and group, between humans and nature, between females and males – between humans and nature — if those two were thought of as separate at all – and between needs in the present and needs of four or even seven generations into the future.