Communal Dreaming
@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
In 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.









