community is all we have
Why We Lost Our Sense of Community
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“Community is what happens when you do what you love together.”
– Pete Davis
“The intimacy that comes with time and attention allows us to be vulnerable with others. This intimacy, across a group, can become a durable network—like mycelia. We are strongest when we feel safe being soft.” To me, that network feels like security.
Cultivating Non-Romantic Intimacy
Independence is a fairy tale that late capitalism tells us in order to shift the responsibility for care and support from community and state to individuals and families. But not everyone has the personal capacity, and not everyone has the family support. And the stories we tell about bootstraps tell su that it’s the fault of an individual if they
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From A.H. Reaume's essay, "Why My Novel is Dedicated to my Disabled Friend Maddy"
The myth of independence also shapes what literature looks like and what kind of writing is valued. We see a novel as better than a short story anthology. We rarely see collaborations in fiction or in poetry. Our literary praxis is that of the lone author typing away by themselves. Our poetics come from solitary brilliant minds. We still cling as a
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From A.H. Reaume's essay, "Why My Novel is Dedicated to my Disabled Friend Maddy"
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
Angela Y. Davis • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
My contribution to the advice canon for making friends follows a similar vein: Think of friendship as a tapestry. It starts with its first seams—a meeting at a party, an introduction, a spark at a concert. Sometimes you’re knitting it together, sometimes one person is working overtime, and sometimes you stop and look at what you’ve made and know th
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