Communal Dreaming
It is important to underscore that many of us do not have the resources or stability that offers us the space to dream. Dreaming is a privilege in and of itself. To have space to dream, we need rest, food, shelter, health care, or access to resources that allow us agency. I want us to dream towards each other. I want us to dream towards action. Com
... See moreAnnika Hansteen-Izora • Communal Dreaming
Dreaming is about expanding our minds beyond the culture of white supremacy, and the perfectionism, hyper-individuality, rushedness, and passiveness it sees as normal. It asks us to see our connections to each other, and to tend to and grow those connections to build structures outside of the tables that were never built with care in mind.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Communal Dreaming
Dreaming asks me to train my attention to constantly critique the white imagination, to be disenchanted by it, bored of it - to ask of something beyond its violent limits. Dreaming asks me to re-educate myself on its radical potential.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Communal Dreaming
this is the power in not only individually dreaming, but in collectively dreaming. There is power in communing in ideas of freedom that whiteness could never even fathom.