For Lorde, how we integrate that pain into our lives is the beginning of social activism. In integrating that pain, we are led to ask “why do these people suffer in this way,” or “how am I complicit in their suffering,” and ideally, we’re less willing to accept conditions that enable that suffering.
looking forward to reading it!
That these protests are being violently disrupted by US universities and repressive Middle Eastern regimes is why I think of Palestinians as the Combahee River Collective of global politics. "being on the bottom, we would have to do what no one else has done: we would have to fight the world."
We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same t...
solidarity in envisioning alternative futures. “To dismiss oceanic feeling on the grounds that it is infantile tacitly locates “adult” subjectivity in the capacity to differentiate self from other rather than the capacity to conceptualize of the subject as connected..”
Histories have an inertia, which is why a history of citation, of repeating ways a thing is used/done, are so hard to push back against. In the context of gender, this is really pernicious for doing gender differently: you literally have to contend with a history that you can feel against your body.
‘I hate the indifferent’ paralleltexts.blog/2015/11/01/i...
I have so much respect for cultural workers, artists and activists in westasia who challenge these structures and boycott foreign funding of institutions that do not speak up for freedom and justice in palestine.
increasing their coercive power to protect the contemporary economic system which secures the interest of both, the local political elite and western hegemony.
their purpose is to solidify Western hegemony through a 'good governance agenda' (which is not subject to any democratic procedure), reinforcing political control over marginalized voices, enabling economic dispossession, and
