Communal Dreaming
βOur ability to dream of something different, to name longing, to articulate a vision and commit to it, directly correlates to the likelihood that we will experience it, that it will be realized. It's the way we bring about change for ourselves, and for the world. When we are besieged by visions that do not match our longing, some of which are... See more
@CassieRobinson@mastodon.social β’ Tweet
Imagination is one of the spoils of colonization, which in many ways is claiming who gets to imagine the future for a given geography. Losing our imagination is a symptom of trauma. Reclaiming the right to dream the future, strengthening the muscle to imagine together as Black people, is a revolutionary decolonizing activity.
adrienne maree brown β’ Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
β‘ Your imagination + creativity is πππππππ β‘ hereβs why you should never stop daydreaming even when the present seems bleak.
instagram.comIn Latin, rescindere means βannul, cancel, abolish, remove by cutting off.β Rescind, not simply regret. Annul, not simply apologize. Abolish, not simply empathize. Why? Because unless the old scripts animated by false notions of superiority and inferiority are ripped to shreds, we will be caught in an endless purgatory: forced to inhabit the same
... See moreRuha Benjamin β’ Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
All of this has important implications for the diversity and inclusiveness of social imagination, or rather for its lack of inclusiveness. Unequal capacities to dream, imagine and shape arguably constitute a deeper inequality than present material inequalities, a deeper constraint on freedom because of their dynamic effects.