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We treat grief as something reserved for death alone, when in truth we live with it every day — in our endings, our beginnings, and every choice in between.
This is why our grief capacity stays so fragile. We keep skipping funerals for our own lives.
This is why our grief capacity stays so fragile. We keep skipping funerals for our own lives.
Jamila Bradley • Grief Is a Practice: The Western Struggle with Letting Go
Our capacity to hold onto our grief, in even the smallest bits, is poor. Our refusal to acknowledge its repeated return over time, in whatever form…instead, blowing right past it or pretending it’s not that big of a deal.
The capitalist and imperialist systems we live in depend on a population that does not stop moving, consuming, producing. Such
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We don’t know how to set something down with reverence. We either white‐knuckle it until it rots in our grip, or we smash it so there’s nothing left to miss.
Grief Is a Practice: The Western Struggle with Letting Go
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
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?
Not quite fantasizing, not thinking about him, but conjuring a man to mind…a type of stimming to get a feeling.
There is a reason you reach to this person…there is a state that you are reaching for when you desire something addictive, be that a behavior or a substance. It is an experience we seek.
What we seek, that experience, that state is a PART
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picking up on the senses
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.”
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