Time is Water

Time spent outside of productivity is cast as wasted or squandered.

I want to imagine with you a timeline where slow time is beautiful. I want a timeline that is blurrier and fuzzier than the linear arrow of time that I’ve been taught is the best and only way.

Communal dreaming is not about escapism, nor is it avoidance of the collapsing crises of our lived realities. Dreaming can be found in radical imagination as described by Robin D.G. Kelley in his book Freedom Dreams: “a collective imagination engaged in an actual movement for liberation. It is fundamentally a product of struggle, of victories and l... See more

In a western culture that’s obsessed with fast time, quick turnarounds and immediate results, can you and I refuse? Can we slow down?

Marginalized people are criminalized for spending time outside of gaining capital

In western time constructs, time is a limited resource. If we want to spend time outside of productivity we have to have earned it in some way, we can’t just have it.

If time is water then small actions reverberate - sometimes to distances I cannot see, maybe to a generation that I won’t meet.

“I do not believe in time, I do believe in water.” Dionne Brand

Do you believe in my smallness? I believe in yours. In our collective smallness I see oceans. I see water that we can use to make this seed grow. To call in the future that’s long been growing by movements that have existed before you and I were here.