Joy in Solidarity
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Joy in Solidarity
Joy is an essential ingredient to surviving and thriving in a world full of darkness and bad news.
John Michael Talbot • The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
Something I think about a lot is how liberation has always been spiritual, always been embodied. There’s an ancestral component to this. Getting ourselves free has always involved spirit, and always involved the body.
I don’t mean spirit in a floaty, abstract, white-washed way.
I mean ass-shaking.
I mean hair-braiding.
I mean altar-tending.
I mean sweat... See more
I don’t mean spirit in a floaty, abstract, white-washed way.
I mean ass-shaking.
I mean hair-braiding.
I mean altar-tending.
I mean sweat... See more
Jamila Bradley • Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle With Spirit
Movements and Liberationist struggles must be and have been grounded by a spirituality towards life, joy, and creation of abundance and freedom.
Joy IS the political work.
Celebrating freedom and kinship and togetherness IS the crucial backbone of movement building. “We don’t just want revolution. We want reclamation of life. We want relationship.”
... See moreThis is why I call myself a celebrationist —because I believe joy is not peripheral to justice. Joy is justice. Pleasure is not a side effect of the work; it is the work. So many of our people didn’t survive just to survive. They survived so we could feel good . So we could gather, and heal, and holler, and praise, and rest, and keep going.
Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle with Spirit
Are there words to convey the treasure I inherited from people who created a distinctly African American faith—a theology that consistently and unequivocally contested white dominance? How can I say thanks for a theology not just rooted in eschatological hope but focused on becoming the beloved community on earth as it will be in heaven?