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What if care is the work?
- It’s flirting with the liminality between the present and the future. I think portals can exist as little hopping moments; I’m in the present, obviously, but I’m also experiencing future realities. How can I use portals as little keys, to bring those two into symbiosis?
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- When we focus on building new models of moving through the world that do not rely on violence and genocide to function, that is abolition at work.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- we do have the energy and the capacity to divest from these violent realities and to recalibrate by stepping through these access points.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
My understanding of abolition is to transform harm and our relationship to how we are trained to think about harm.
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Keely Adler added 1mo ago
- Activation Residency is designed for you to be the master of your body and experiences, which is at the core of abolition and liberation work. How do we let people be free?
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- harm happens when choice is absent, but also harm is bound to happen. How can we soften our edges around harm by encouraging autonomy and dismantling hierarchy? This can be done through sharing information, listening, and identifying underlying needs, as well as training our nervous systems to get intimate with receiving feedback.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- As someone who’s applied to some artist residencies in the past, it has felt like an antiquated, exclusive process that takes the intimacy out of the interaction. No one is prioritizing creating intimacy between artists, nor do I necessarily feel my art is always safe among my peers. I think that cutting that anxiety really does subvert the traditi... See more
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
When you do deeper digging, there isn’t much pedagogy around care outside of healthcare.
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Keely Adler added 1mo ago
we all have needs that need to be tended to. I always wonder, what if care is the work? What if caring for ourselves is the revolution, meaning, what would happen if we divested from dismantling white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and invested our energy in equitizing the care we are able to provide one another?
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