spirit

on joy and resistance, among other things

Movements and Liberationist struggles must be and have been grounded by a spirituality towards life, joy, and creation of abundance and freedom.

Joy IS the political work.

Celebrating freedom and kinship and togetherness IS the crucial backbone of movement building. “We don’t just want revolution. We want reclamation of life. We want relationship.”

In reflection to “Joy is a Strategy - The White Leftist Struggle with Spirit” by Jamila Bradley

Something I think about a lot is how liberation has always been spiritual, always been embodied. There’s an ancestral component to this. Getting ourselves free has always involved spirit, and always involved the body.

I don’t mean spirit in a floaty, abstract, white-washed way.

I mean ass-shaking.

I mean hair-braiding.

I mean altar-tending.

I mean sweat... See more

Jamila Bradley • Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle With Spirit

The task is to practice joy in the face of pain.

how do we begin to name what is sacred?
how do we begin to identify it, if what has remained unnamed for so long as led to its obscurity?

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