added by Sixian and · updated 2mo ago
On Gathering
- Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
from On Gathering by shiftspace.pub
andrea added 9mo ago
- Oral histories, like publications, bind people. After a conversation, all parties maintain ownership of what transpired, and they continue to hold ties to one another.
from On Gathering by shiftspace.pub
Sixian added 2y ago
- Stories are entrusted to storytellers by the elders. But these storytellers are not meant to repeat the narrative verbatim; they are expected to understand these stories and, through them, reflect on what the community needs to hear at any given moment. This temporal gathering, both in and around a story, acknowledges the personal subjectivities al... See more
from On Gathering by shiftspace.pub
Sixian added 2y ago
- In Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986), Le Guin posits the first human tool as the basket, not the spear, thereby recasting the first protagonist as a gatherer, not a hunter. Not only did this address the deeply gendered roles of these two parts, it also changed the singular hero to the plural collective, from he to we. “Before... See more
from On Gathering by shiftspace.pub
Sixian added 2y ago
- In an interview with Roxana Fabius, Patricia M. Hernandez, and me for The Scalability Project (2020), adrienne maree brown described relationships like a spiderweb—diaphanous yet strong, thick yet porous. “A web allows things to fall through, like a sieve,” she said. “Some things are not meant to be caught.” I like to think of these webs as citatio... See more
from On Gathering by shiftspace.pub
Sixian added 2y ago
- History written by the victors offers glimpses of marginalized figures, for whom we need to “fabulate” stories to “strain against the limits of the archive” and “represent lives… through the process of narration.” Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
from On Gathering by shiftspace.pub
Sixian added 2y ago
- Perhaps gathering stories is radical because it refuses to give the gatherer all of the credit. The collector-collection dynamic is deliberately broken. The person who puts it together is only one of many parts.
from On Gathering by shiftspace.pub
Sixian added 2y ago
- Brown also built upon Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” (1984), declaring, “I believe conversation is not a master’s tool. I believe being in a circle, in a community, is not a master’s tool.” Here, she describes gathering people to share stories as a web, a network, as a finding aid for like-minded voices.
from On Gathering by shiftspace.pub
Sixian added 2y ago
- Gathering is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those goods.
from On Gathering by Mindy Seu
Joseph added 2mo ago
Mindy Seu