Love as a Revolutionary Social Ethic
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Love as a Revolutionary Social Ethic
what it might look like for us to prioritize and honor our friendships in a way that allows for a more expansive understanding of what friendship is. Nordgren writes that “relationship anarchy questions the idea that love is a limited resource that can only be real if restricted to a couple.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
This is where the rising “lover” messaging (allowing ourselves to love and be loved) becomes both a signal of hope for the future and an act of retaliation against capitalist individualism. After all, the only people that benefit from us isolating ourselves from our communities are the people who are fearful of our power in numbers.
i-D • Unpacking our generational fear of codependency
Andie Nordgren, published in Swedish as “Relationsanarki i 8 punkter” by Interacting Arts in 2006