Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle with Spirit

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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

Jamila Bradley • Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle With Spirit

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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.”